DNC stored $32K in decades-old Jeffrey Epstein donations whereas criticizing Trump

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The Democratic Nationwide Committee’s donations from the late financier Jeffrey Epstein have come beneath renewed scrutiny as Epstein’s sex-trafficking case information proceed to roil the Trump administration.

The DNC’s donations from Epstein within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, totaling $32,000, had been by no means returned by the committee, whereas a number of different Democratic lawmakers and entities have since donated or returned theirs.

The donations, seen in public marketing campaign finance data, are again within the highlight because the DNC relentlessly taunts the administration over Epstein by making a social media account devoted to elevating consciousness about his nonpublic case information and circulating a cellular billboard about it by the White Home.

DNC Chairman Ken Martin lately accused President Donald Trump, who was as soon as pals with Epstein previous to Epstein dealing with prices, of protecting up for a "infamous sexual predator."

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Democratic Nationwide Committee chair Ken Martin, standing alongside Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, at an occasion in Chicago on Aug. 5, 2025. (DNC)

Requested for touch upon by no means returning Epstein's donations, a DNC spokesperson disregarded the funds, which got within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, in a press release to Fox Information Digital.

"As an alternative of attempting to blow the cobwebs off of decades-old contributions and defunct marketing campaign accounts, Donald Trump ought to launch the Epstein information," the spokesperson stated.

Scrutiny over donations and any conflicts they current is widespread in political campaigning. The RNC confronted calls to return what Business Insider discovered to be $1.4 million from its former finance chair Steve Wynn, a on line casino mogul who stepped down from his position with the committee and with Wynn Resorts after dealing with quite a few allegations of sexual misconduct and settling lawsuits over them.

The DNC additionally accepted greater than $90,000 from the non-public hedge fund of billionaire Glenn Dubin, who has shut ties to Epstein. No less than two prime Republicans, Sen. David McCormick, R-Pa., and Vivek Ramaswamy, additionally accepted donations from Dubin. Epstein invested thousands and thousands in a hedge fund managed by Dubin. One among Epstein’s most vocal accusers, the late Virginia Giuffre, testified in 2015 that affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell compelled her to have sexual relations with Dubin. Dubin was by no means criminally charged.

Epstein donated on a smaller scale to Republicans, together with President George H.W. Bush.

Epstein first pleaded responsible in 2008 to state prices of soliciting a minor for prostitution earlier than dealing with federal prices in 2019 of trafficking and abusing underage girls. Epstein died in what authorities stated was suicide whereas in jail awaiting trial.

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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell had been each indicted on federal intercourse trafficking prices stemming from Epstein's years of trafficking underage ladies. (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan through Getty Photos)

Epstein used his huge wealth to donate to a number of Democrats, together with Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y., and the Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee. When Epstein’s prices had been introduced in 2019, donation recipients confronted strain to disassociate from the funds.

Schumer, who obtained 1000's from Epstein within the Nineteen Nineties, vowed in 2019 to offset the funds by making a donation of their quantity to anti-trafficking and ladies's advocacy teams. Equally, Rep. Stacey Plaskett, D-V.I., revealed she would disavow Epstein’s donations by giving to The Girls’s Coalition and The Household Useful resource Middle after dealing with criticism for initially selecting to carry onto the cash.

Chuck Schumer's future as Democratic chief within the Senate is something however sure after an important vote that led to backlash on the bottom. (Reuters)

The DCCC obtained a $10,000 examine from Epstein in 2018 however stated the cash was unsolicited and instantly refunded.

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The late Don Fowler, former DNC chairman, stated in a press release after Epstein was charged, that his committee's donations had been too previous to handle, in accordance to CNBC.

"Return and provides cash that he gave 20 years in the past? Are you nuts?" Fowler stated.

Ashley Oliver is a reporter for Fox Information Digital and FOX Enterprise, protecting the Justice Division and authorized affairs. Electronic mail story tricks to ashley.oliver@fox.com .