Lawmakers are on their annual month of summer holidays, but continue to demand Jeffrey Epstein’s responses and records.
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WASHINGTON – Lawmakers are on their annual month-long summer break, but the controversy over convicted late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has not left their hearts.
Democrats and Republicans alike are pushing for the release of all Epstein files after a Justice Department report found out that Epstein died of suicide and that there is no “client list” despite previous proposals by General Pam Bondy. Members of the parties’ council say that once the break ends after Labor Day, they will force more public debate on the issue.
“The Epstein case will not be buried for decades,” Missouri Republican Rep. Eric Burrison wrote in an August 10th post on X.
The Epstein controversy created a division between President Donald Trump and his Magazine base. His supporters pushed back the Republican administration’s attempts to close Epstein’s book after helping Trump and his supporters raise expectations for a massive hit revelation.
Kentucky Rep. James Kommer, who heads the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, summoned longtime Epstein associate Githraine Maxwell on August 11 to deposit his house at Tallahassee, a federal correctional facility. Convicted of sex trafficking and 20 years in prison.
Rep. Thomas Massie of R-Kentucky and Ro Khanna of D-California are also major efforts to force a House floor vote on a bill that requires the government to release all Epstein files. They will need 218 signatures to make it happen and plan to hold a press conference with Maxwell and Epstein victims on September 3rd to strengthen more support for their efforts.
“Survivors deserve justice, and the public deserve transparency,” Kanna wrote in X.
Trump’s long-standing friendship with Epstein has been scrutinized for years. Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that the future president had sent an indecent letter to Epstein for his 50th birthday as part of a leather-bound book containing dozens of other messages, the Journal reported. Khanna and D-California MP Robert Garcia requested the book in a letter sent to Epstein’s estate attorney on July 25th.
The New York Times also reported that former Epstein employee Maria Farmer told law enforcement in 1996 that she met Trump in Epstein’s office, and Epstein told Trump, “No, she’s not here for you.”
Some Democrats have alleged that Trump’s recent lawsuit, which deploys National Guard in D.C. to crack down on crime, is an attempt to divert from the Epstein controversy. “He has to speak and think about the base besides refusing to open the Epstein file because he is confusing the Epstein file,” former Transport Secretary Pete Battigigue said in a video clip shared on X.
However, Vice President JD Vance defended Trump in multiple interviews, claiming that the president wanted full transparency on the issue.
“President Trump demands full transparency on this, but somehow Democrats are attacking him and they’ve done nothing for four years,” Vance told Sunday Morning Futures in an interview aired on August 10.
