Which White House staffers or officials arranged or hosted Epstein's visits and what was their role?

1. What the records say: Epstein’s entries and a donor reception

White House visitor logs and contemporary reporting show Epstein attended a White House donors’ reception after donating $10,000 to the White House Historical Association and that he appears in visitor records multiple times in 1993–1995, with outlets reporting 14–17 visits on 14 separate days and multiple same-day returns ^{[2] [1] [6]}. Those items document presence and occasion (a donor event) but do not by themselves identify a consistent White House staffer who formally “arranged” most of the visits ^{[2] [1]}.

2. Named White House aides tied to Epstein visits: Mark Middleton

Multiple reports and a consolidated account on Wikipedia note Epstein met with Mark Middleton, described as a presidential aide and special assistant to the White House chief of staff, in the White House in the 1993–1995 window; sources say logs indicate several visits to meet Middleton ^{[3] [4] [2]}. The Daily Beast reporting cited a source who said Middleton was visited several times by Epstein, which frames Middleton as a White House contact rather than conclusively the host who organized donor-reception entries ^[4].

3. Other officials and the limits of visitor logs

Some reporting attributes early invitations or receptions to White House organizations rather than single staffers—for example, the donor reception was organized by the White House Historical Association, a private nonprofit tied to but separate from direct White House staffing—so logs list attendees without necessarily naming who “hosted” Epstein’s entries ^[2]. National Review and other outlets cite the numeric tally of visits but, like other sources, rely on logs that do not uniformly record which official arranged each entry ^[1].

4. Disagreements and interpretive pitfalls in the sources

Coverage differs in emphasis: investigative pieces highlight associations and repeated meetings with aides such as Middleton ^{[4] [3]}, while other outlets emphasize the raw count of visits to suggest closeness without necessarily documenting an arranging official ^{[1] [6]}. Some accounts conflate appearances at a public donors’ event—where Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were received as donors—with private meetings; the logs substantiate attendance but not the substance of conversations or who personally arranged private access ^{[2] [3]}.

5. What the sources do not show or say

Available sources do not provide a comprehensive list of White House staffers who “arranged” every Epstein visit, and they do not supply contemporaneous memos or cleared staff scheduling notes naming hosts for each log entry (not found in current reporting). They also do not establish that President Clinton personally facilitated all visits; rather, the documentary record shows donor-event reception attendance and separate visits to aides such as Middleton ^{[2] [3]}.

6. Context and why this matters

Visitor logs are a narrow source: they confirm physical presence and sometimes the occasion (donor reception) but leave unanswered whether visits were routine donor-access, scheduled meetings with staff, or otherwise arranged through outside groups; multiple outlets use the same logs to reach different emphases—some focusing on frequency, others on named aide contacts—so readers should weigh both the documented entries and the limits of what logs can prove ^{[1] [4]}.

7. Bottom line for readers

Reporting consistently documents Epstein’s repeated presence at the Clinton White House in the early 1990s and links him to at least one donor reception and to meetings with aide Mark Middleton, but the sources do not support a comprehensive roster of White House staffers who arranged or hosted every visit; available records and reporting stop short of definitive attribution for many log entries ^{[2] [3] [1]}.