House Democrats' Epstein Report Includes New Trump Rape Allegation; White House Calls It Lies

House Judiciary Committee Democrats released a report Monday alleging a White House cover-up of the Jeffrey Epstein files. It includes a new rape allegation against President Donald Trump from Beatrice Keul, a model and former Miss Switzerland. Keul told committee staff that Trump raped her in 1993, when she was 24, in a room at a Plaza Hotel. The report says she called the attack brutal and said he tore her dress and bruised her. Afterward, she said, he repeated promises that associate and modeling agent Paolo Zampolli would help with a U.S. visa and admission to New York University, and asked her to stay quiet. In a 2024 Daily Mail interview, Keul said Trump had only attempted to assault her. The report also compiles allegations from four other women, dating from the mid-1980s to the 1990s, all previously public. TIME first detailed the report and said it could not independently verify Keul's account. White House communications director Steven Cheung rejected the report on X as lies.

Breitbart, on the right, leads with Cheung's response, quoting his profanity-laced claim that Democrats and the media peddle accusations before every election. It then cites TIME on Keul and its failure to verify her account, and stresses that the other claims were already public. It places the Plaza Hotel suite in Manhattan. The New Republic, on the left, leads with Keul's account instead, giving the violence, injuries, visa promises and Zampolli's later administration roles, and it contrasts her 2024 Daily Mail version. It does not feature a White House response in the excerpt. Both sides report the 1993 allegation, the report's Monday release and Keul's earlier public statements. They differ on location, in Atlantic City or Manhattan, and on whether the focus is the allegation or its political motive. Alternative outlets Straight Arrow News and Truthout stress the report's broader claims: a DOJ cover-up, 11 alleged assaults and shared recruiting patterns.