President Donald Trump turned up the pressure Sunday night, urging House Republicans to vote this week to force the Justice Department to release every single file tied to Jeffrey Epstein. Trump made the demand just days after directing the DOJ to dig into Epstein’s connections with powerful Democrats, especially figures like Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, and Larry Summers.
The timing couldn’t be more significant. House Speaker Mike Johnson is preparing a vote on legislation that would compel full disclosure of the Epstein materials. If Republicans unite behind the measure and pass it through the House, it would still require 60 votes in the Senate before landing on Trump’s desk.
Trump reminded supporters that he’s been crystal clear on this issue. “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide,” he said, blasting the controversy as “a Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics” trying to distract from the GOP’s recent victories — including outmaneuvering Democrats on the shutdown fight.
According to Trump, the Justice Department has already made tens of pages of Epstein documents public, and he said the House Oversight Committee will have access to everything it is legally entitled to see. He also argued that Democrats would have released any damaging material long before the “Landslide Election Victory” if they had anything real.
“Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive,” Trump said, adding that some Republicans were being “used” by Democrats pushing the narrative. Instead of falling for the Epstein “trap,” Trump said the GOP should be focused on its accomplishments — a strong economy, tax cuts, trillions in new investment, and his aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration.
Democrats, meanwhile, have been scrambling to link Trump to Epstein through selective email dumps. Last week, they released messages claiming Epstein said Trump “knew about the girls” and “spent hours” at his home with an unnamed victim. But the GOP Oversight Committee followed up by releasing 20,000 additional pages of documents — and none of it implicated Trump.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified that the unnamed woman in the emails was the late Virginia Giuffre, who publicly stated Trump never did anything wrong and was “friendly” in their brief interactions. Trump has pointed out that he banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago decades ago for inappropriate behavior toward female staff.
Trump also said Democrats who had “sleazy relationships” with Epstein should be prosecuted, calling out their selective outrage and political gamesmanship. At the same time, he made clear he wants Republicans focused on the issues that matter to voters instead of letting Democrats weaponize Epstein’s scandal to damage the GOP.