The recently (and reluctantly) signed Epstein Files Transparency Act (P.L. 119-38) requires that those files be made public on or about December 19, 2025. Given the existential fear shown by the Malignant Fascist and his pedophile protection cult (a.k.a., the MAGA Republican Party) in making them public, Democrats are wisely making plans to keep maximum pressure on the Department of Justice to release the files, notwithstanding games being played (our emphasis):
“It will definitely be a fight every day for a long time until we get all the materials released,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has dismissed the concerns, vowing that the DOJ will “follow the law.” The statute requires the administration to release all the unclassified case files on Epstein, the late child sex offender, within 30 days of its enactment on Nov. 20.
She’s also been compelled to release the documents by an earlier subpoena issued by the House Oversight Committee.
But Bondi, at Trump’s urging, has also opened a new investigation into Democratic associates of Epstein, citing “new information” she says has surfaced since the DOJ deemed the case closed in July. That development has sparked fears among Democrats — and even some of Trump’s GOP allies — that the DOJ will invoke the ongoing probe to delay the mandatory release of those files indefinitely.
“We should pursue all options because these people are not going to comply with the law,” said Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.). “They don’t give a shit about the survivors. And they don’t care about the fact that Congress overwhelmingly — almost unanimously in both chambers — passed the bill that says you’ve got to release this stuff.”
Trump, he added, “doesn’t want these files out.”
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the senior Democrat on the Oversight Committee, penned a letter to Bondi early Friday, arguing the new DOJ probe has no bearing on the agency’s legal obligation to comply with the panel’s earlier subpoena. While there are carve outs in the new Trump-signed law for withholding information from the wider Congress, he wrote, House Oversight is entitled to the entirety of the files, without any redactions. [snip]
“There’s no telling with these folks, because there was so much consternation over releasing it to begin with,” said Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.). “We just don’t know the quality of what we’d receive, what the redactions will look like, and whether in fact we would have the absolute full complement of the materials.”
Democrats say the crucial factor forcing Trump to reverse course at the last moment was the Epstein accusers, a group of roughly a dozen women who made the rounds in the media — and staged press events at the Capitol — to put a face to Epstein’s alleged crimes and pressure Republicans to pass the legislation forcing the DOJ’s hand.
The bill might be law, Democrats added, but the accusers will remain a key part of the campaign to press the administration to honor its intent.
The lower courts may be helpful only up to the point where an appeal reaches the MAGA Republican Supreme Court, which has shown no inclination to cross its cult leader up to now. However, the overwhelming public sentiment that "elites are hiding what's in the Epstein files and it needs to come out" is a compelling pressure point on the regime and the pedophile protection cult. There's also this:
House Oversight Democrats say if DOJ does try and hold back any documents, that may be difficult for the department to conceal.
“A lot of people have seen different pieces of what is in that DOJ broader file, and so we think that would be a huge mistake on the attorney general’s part, because eventually there are enough people that know pieces of what’s in there which we’re trying to put together that that would that would get back [to us] and that that would become public at some point,” the source said.
“I know there are folks that are providing information that get back to the committee about what possibly may be in the files.”
Having lived in the era of the Watergate scandal, one lesson learned that you can be sure of is that what is hidden will be revealed. As Nixon counsel John Dean has said, we have a “cognitive bias toward concealment. We double down rather than ’fess up — even when that choice is irrational and leads to ruin.” The Epstein-Trump files, covered up or released, have "ruin" written all over them.
(Gif: Trump to BFF Epstein, "She's hot!"/ Ghislaine in white blouse not hearing anything inappropriate!)
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