Jesse Watters said Congress has dropped a “bombshell report” on Jeffrey Epstein. In a post sharing a video, Watters wrote, “This is the tip of the iceberg.”
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on November 10 released a majority staff report titled “A Review of the Federal Government’s Mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell Criminal Investigations.” The committee said the report followed a 15-month investigation that included 19 transcribed interviews and depositions, documents from the Department of Justice and the Epstein estate, and a review of financial records.
The committee said the federal government “has failed the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s horrific crimes for decades.” Chairman James Comer said Epstein “operated with impunity, shielded and enabled by powerful connections and a justice system that repeatedly failed his victims.” According to the report, Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of multiple charges, including sex trafficking, and later sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. Epstein died in federal custody in 2019 after his arrest, while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
The committee finds that crimes Epstein committed after 2005 “could have been prevented” if not for failures by federal investigators and prosecutors in South Florida and Washington, D.C. The report states that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida entered a 2007 non-prosecution agreement that allowed Epstein to avoid federal prosecution in exchange for a guilty plea to lesser state charges. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail, received work-release privileges “during which he continued to abuse women,” and was released early, the committee said. Federal prosecutors also failed to inform survivors of the agreement, according to the report.
The committee said that after Epstein’s 2019 arrest, understaffing and “systemic dysfunction” at a Bureau of Prisons facility in New York contributed to correctional officers missing at least 12 rounds and three inmate counts on the night of his death, leaving nearly eight hours without adequate supervision. The report also said that after the Epstein Files Transparency Act was enacted in 2025, the Justice Department “failed to adequately communicate about document releases and failed to sufficiently protect survivors,” and that deficient redactions exposed survivors’ sensitive personal information.
Comer said the Justice Department “must interview or re-interview key witnesses, investigate Epstein associates accused of criminal activity, and ensure survivors have access to their records.” The report calls on Congress to pass Comer’s Survivor’s Voice Protection Act, which he said would let survivors and others with knowledge of sexual abuse speak freely, “regardless of nondisclosure agreements.” The committee also said the facts gathered in its investigation “do not suggest President Trump is implicated in any of Epstein’s crimes,” and that it “did not identify any documents that would implicate President Trump in any criminal activity related to Epstein and Maxwell.”
