BREAKING: House Oversight Dropped New Epstein Documents And Steven Bannon, Peter Thiel, And Elon Musk Are All Over Them

Calendars naming Thiel and Bannon. A manifest listing Prince Andrew. A line about Elon Musk “to island.” And a Friday release meant to force the question: who is protecting whom?

House Oversight dropped a few pages from the Epstein Estate Files today, and Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and that good lookin’ son-of-a-bitch Steve Bannon all had access, met with, and travelled with Peter Thiel multiple times.

The Pedo Plot thickens.

TL;DR

• House Oversight released a new tranche of Epstein estate records—daily schedules, flight manifests, ledgers—late on a Friday as Washington braced for a potential government shutdown.

• The documents include: a 2017 lunch scheduled with Peter Thiel, a 2019 breakfast scheduled with Steve Bannon, a 2014 reminder about Elon Musk “to island… (is this still happening?)”, and a May 12, 2000 passenger manifest listing Prince Andrew.

• Schedules show planned access; manifests show who actually flew.

• The timing and contents widen the circle of powerful figures touched by Epstein’s paperwork and shrink the available deniability.

A Friday Meant to Be Felt

This didn’t dribble out on a sleepy Wednesday. It landed late on a Friday—the oldest play in the scandal handbook when you want maximum public impact and minimal congressional capacity to smother it. With a shutdown looming, the drop ensured the story would travel faster than committees could.

The packet is exactly what you’d expect from an estate dump that wasn’t curated for anyone’s reputation: day plans, flight manifests, ledgers, call lists—banal on their face, devastating in aggregate. Each page is a breadcrumb. Together, they map proximity to power.

What the Pages Actually Show

1) Peter Thiel — “12:00pm LUNCH” (Nov. 27, 2017, New York)
A one-line entry on Epstein’s daily schedule: “LUNCH w/Peter Thiel.” A calendar isn’t proof the lunch happened, but it is proof of scheduled, direct access. That’s already a world beyond rumor or “mutual acquaintances.” It tells us Epstein (or his staff) could place Thiel on a day plan like any other high-value contact.

2) Steve Bannon — “7:00am BREAKFAST” (Feb. 16, 2019)
Another schedule page, another name from the center of Trump-era politics. The time matters: 7:00 a.m. is priority territory. You don’t give away pre-8 a.m. slots if you’re not moving something serious.

3) Elon Musk — “to island… (is this still happening?)” (Dec. 6, 2014)
A reminder line on a 2014 schedule: “Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is this still happening?)” It reads like last-minute logistics, not confirmation of travel. Still, this came from the estate’s own files. Whatever Epstein was selling to the world’s richest man—access, influence, flattery—the line shows an anticipated Little St. James visit had been discussed.

4) Prince Andrew — Passenger Manifest (May 12, 2000)
Unlike a calendar, a manifest is a contemporaneous travel record. One page lists “PRINCE ANDREW” on Epstein’s jet from Teterboro (TEB) to West Palm Beach (PBI) alongside Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. That’s not a plan; that’s a lift.

5) Ledgers & Messages
Financial pages and notes round out the drop—redacted where they reference survivors—but still revealing the daily churn of payments, “messages,” and euphemisms that defined Epstein’s machine.

Why This Matters: The Thiel Question, the Musk Picture, the Protection Problem

For years, defenders of the ultra-rich tried to wall off Epstein as a rogue node with a limited, already-known cast of characters. These pages push beyond the usual names. They show scheduled meetings with Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon and a contemplated island trip with Elon Musk. None of this, on its own, proves criminal conduct by the people named. But it does prove proximity, priority, and planning.

For Thiel in particular, the clean, commonplace phrasing—“LUNCH w/Peter Thiel”—reads less like a one-off curiosity and more like the vanilla shorthand you use for someone you expect to sit down with. It suggests a relationship at least closer than arm’s length. How much closer? That’s what further tranches will tell.

Zoom out, and the picture becomes harder to ignore: the richest, most powerful men in Trump’s universe keep appearing in documents that were never meant to defend them. Calendars don’t convict. But they do collapse deniability. And when those names surface on the very Friday the government teeters on shutdown, you’re meant to ask whether political power has long served as reputational Kevlar—who was protected, and who was sacrificed.

Read This Like a Prosecutor, Not a Fan

• Schedules ≠ events. They prove intent and access, not completion.

• Manifests ≠ innocence. They prove travel, not purpose.

• Patterns matter. One entry can be explained away. A series begins to describe a relationship.

• Timing is a tell. A pre-shutdown Friday is a message: there’s more here, and you won’t bury it in committee.

What We Still Don’t Know (Yet)

• Whether the Thiel lunch and Bannon breakfast occurred exactly as scheduled—and what was discussed.

• Whether Musk actually traveled to Little St. James on or around Dec. 6, 2014.

• How many additional pages reference these or other high-profile figures, and whether recurring entries exist that would show ongoing contact.

• Who, inside government, knew and chose not to act—or acted to shield.

The Stakes

Survivors—many of them minors at the time—have carried the burden while the world argued over lists. These documents are not the end of the story. They are the end of plausible ignorance. If the House is willing to keep releasing estate records, then the era of “I barely knew him” needs to meet the paper it’s printed on.

Friday’s drop doesn’t accuse; it forces accountability questions. If the names in these pages were any less powerful, no one would hesitate to demand full transparency. The only real question left is whether wealth and proximity to power still buy a different standard of scrutiny.