A resurfaced report shared on the U.S. House of Representatives website reveals that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer received thousands of dollars in donations from Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990s, with Federal Election Commission (FEC) records confirming the discovery, which was first reported by the New York Post.
For background, in 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives published a July 10, 2019, article from The New York Post on its official website that revealed concerning ties between Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Jeffrey Epstein, the serial predator and financier. Importantly, Sen. Schumer has frequently called out President Trump for his connections to Epstein — while apparently hiding his own.
According to the New York Post, Epstein gave Sen. Schumer seven separate $1,000 donations between 1992 and 1997, with the Post explaining that the donations came to Schumer “first as a US
congressman from New York and then when he was vying to be the state’s senator in 1998, an election he won.”
Furthermore, the Post reported that Epstein also gave $5,000 to Win New York, a joint committee that was described as “Schumer-associated.” Moreover, the Post’s Nikki Schwab observed, “Both of Epstein’s donations to the committees came in October 1998 — and look to have primarily benefited the DSCC and the Liberal Party of New York,
as Epstein would have already met the $2,000 limit on donating individually to Schumer.”
Moreover, Sen. Schumer reportedly previously called for Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta to resign over Acosta’s handling of Epstein’s sentencing. Sen. Schumer said of Acosta, “If he refuses to resign, President Trump should fire him. Instead of prosecuting a predator and serial sex trafficker of children, Acosta chose to let him off. We cannot have as one of the leading appointed officials in America someone who has done this.”
In addition, while Sen. Schumer has frequently attempted to peg President Trump as a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, the president recently clarifiedthat he “never went” to the predator and financier’s infamous island, saying so during a July 28, 2025, meeting with UK leaders, including Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The president continued, “I never went to the island, but [former Treasury Secretary] Larry Summers, I hear, went there, he was the head of Harvard. And many other people that are very big people, nobody ever talks about them.”
Continuing, the president said that he had been invited to the island, but he “did turn it down,” adding, “In one of my very good moments, I turned it down.” The president went on to disavow a drawing that he allegedly sent to Epstein in a birthday card, saying, “I don’t do drawings. I’m not a drawing person. I don’t do drawings. Sometimes people would say, ‘Would you do a building?’ And I’ll draw four lines and a little roof, you know, for a charity.”