USA10 September, 20262 min read
Dallas Opens Trump And Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room With 3.5 Million Pages
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Reading room in Dallas displays life-sized timeline of Trump-Epstein connection. First batch of Epstein files released; European agencies say DOJ unresponsive.
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Epstein files, Dallas exhibit
In Dallas, a traveling exhibit called The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room opened at the Vouv Meeting & Event Space, displaying millions of files in a pop-up location through Friday as the city hosts Trump during the first-ever Republican midterm convention.
The exhibit’s timeline begins with their 1987 introduction and ends in 2026 after Trump’s Department of Justice released about half the files it has on Epstein, 3.5 million pages.
Visitors can see documents printed out and bound in 3,437 volumes of softcover books stacked on winding bookshelves, and Lara Blume McGee, a former model who reported being abused by Epstein to the FBI, pulled one down and flipped to a page with a fully redacted email.
McGee questioned what the files conceal, saying, "What are they hiding here?" and "Who are they protecting?"
Democrats vs GOP spectacle
While Republicans gathered in Dallas for a two-day midterm convention with Trump at the center, Democrats held counterprogramming aimed at linking the spectacle to political and economic concerns.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker told attendees, "This bizarre Republican midterm convention here can't paper over the fact that Republicans have done nothing to earn your vote," as the event was described as an attempt to boost Republican enthusiasm despite Trump’s low approval ratings and dissatisfaction over the war with Iran.
Texas state lawmaker James Talarico compared volunteer work to the convention, saying, "While we're here serving our neighbors, billionaire megadonors and their puppet politicians are clinking their Champagne glasses," and he framed the contrast as a response to costs driven by "corrupt tariffs" and "billionaire tax breaks."
In Dallas, Rep. Robert Garcia said Democrats were there "to make that contrast clear" and argued that Trump was "throwing a two-day party to himself, for all his donor friends, while people struggle and they can’t afford gas, groceries."
Accountability and international fallout
The Dallas reading room campaign for prosecutions is tied to a broader dispute over whether authorities have acted on the information in Epstein-related files, with David Garrett saying he wants the public to see the scale of intelligence that has not been fully investigated.
Garrett said, "We have the most powerful and feared law enforcement entities on the face of the planet and they were only able to find two perpetrators for these tens of thousands of crimes?" and he added that some criminals whose names are in the files are "still out there."
In Europe, law enforcement agencies investigating people allegedly connected to Epstein told U.S. authorities they were not receiving help, with a DOJ spokesperson telling The Telegraph that the department "doesn’t comment on legal assistance with other countries’ investigations."
The Washington Post reported that European prosecutors said they reached out for mutual legal assistance but "none of them received responses," including Norwegian state prosecutor Marianne Bender saying, "This is very unfortunate for the Norwegian investigation, and Okokrim hopes that the U.S. Department of Justice will approve our request at some point."