A long list of powerful people, including President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton, are shown with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in more than a dozen photographs released Friday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

The photographs are among 95,000 images that Epstein’s estate turned over to the Committee, which has been investigating Epstein’s sex trafficking organization and his ties to other people who may have been involved in his crimes.

Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, called many of the photographs in the batch they received “disturbing,” and noted they were still sifting through them.

He added that the photos “raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world. We will not rest until the American people get the truth. The Department of Justice must release all the files, NOW.”

It remains to be seen whether the Justice Department will meet its Dec. 19 deadline to release all the government files on the Epstein case, as required under a bill passed last month by Congress and signed by Trump. The government files, which include the FBI files and other documents held by the Justice Department, are separate from the material obtained by the Oversight Committee from Epstein’s estate.

A White House spokeswoman accused the Democrats on the Oversight Committee of cherry-picking photographs to create a “false narrative” by failing to focus on Democrats who accepted campaign money from Epstein. (In fact, the photographs showed Democrats and Republicans).

“The Trump Administration has done more for Epstein’s victims than Democrats have by repeatedly calling for transparency, releasing thousands of pages of documents and calling for further investigations into Epstein’s Democrat friends,” said the spokeswoman, Abigail Jackson.

(While Trump administration officials did call for transparency earlier in the year, they did not release any files other than binders of material that had already made public. Afterward, the Justice Department decided to close the case and refused to release the files.)

Trump himself is pictured in three photos. One photo shows what appears to be a bowl of condoms with Trump’s face on them next to the words “I’m HUUUUGE!” and a sign that reads: “Trump condom $4.50.”

In another, Trump is next to a group of six women in necklaces that appear to be Hawaiian leis. The setting is unclear, but in December 2015, Epstein offered former New York Times reporter Landon Thomas Jr. photos of Trump with girls in bikinis in his kitchen, and called a woman a “Hawaiian tropic girl.”

Other photos appear to show objects used during sex — restraints, toys and a “Jawbreaker Gag.”

Also pictured are former Harvard President Larry Summers, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, the former British royal Prince Andrew, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, billionaire Richard Branson, director Woody Allen and Epstein’s convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.

While only 19 photos were released to the public Friday, Garcia indicated that they were reviewing the others to ensure that victims’ images are redacted or not released at all. The photos are from Epstein’s computers. It’s not known whether the computers were the same ones seized by the FBI its 2019 raids of his properties.

Many of the men in the photos have previously been linked to Epstein. But they nevertheless represent a powerful piece of evidence showing how close Epstein was to some of the most iconic, powerful and wealthiest people in the country.

The undated photos do not show any sexual activity. But they do show Epstein’s sexual proclivities involving sex toys — and there is at least one photo on his desk that appears to show a partially naked woman.

The new photos follow a release last month of more than 20,000 documents that showed how the convicted sex trafficker continued to mingle with an extraordinary network of figures across the world — even after his crimes became public knowledge. Those figures include people in academics, politics, foreign affairs, banking and business.

The emails also showed that former White House chief strategist and right-wing provocateur Steve Bannon, who is also shown with Epstein in one photo, closely advised Epstein on how to handle the fallout after the Miami Herald published a series in 2018 about his crimes. Epstein in turn, helped Bannon with an effort to build a political movement in Europe.

Epstein, in previous emails, also offered insight into Trump to various people, claiming that he was close to Trump and knew his way of thinking.

Last week, the Committee released photos of Epstein’s island compound off the coast of St. Thomas, and in August, the New York Times released photos of Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, including framed images that Epstein had of other prominent world leaders and celebrities.

Many of Epstein’s survivors have said that Maxwell often took provocative photographs of them, including when they were underage. They were asked to pose nude or partially nude at times. During Maxwell’s trial, the judge barred the jury from seeing some of the more lurid photographs that were seized during the 2019 FBI raid of Epstein’s New York mansion.

Epstein was initially investigated in 2005 in South Florida after more than three dozen girls accused him of molesting and raping them in his Palm Beach home. He ultimately received federal immunity as part of a plea deal in which he served 13 months in the Palm Beach County jail. During his incarceration, he was given work release, which enabled him to leave the jail all day, almost every day.

He was re-arrested in 2019 on sex trafficking charges in New York. A month after his arrest, on Aug. 10, 2019, he was found hanging in his Manhattan jail cell. His death was ruled a suicide. He was 66.

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