{"id":68084,"date":"2025-10-21T14:15:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68084"},"modified":"2025-10-29T02:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:13:53","slug":"why-wont-republicans-release-the-epstein-files-that-they-keep-insisting-will-exonerate-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68084","title":{"rendered":"Why Won&#8217;t Republicans Release the Epstein Files That They Keep Insisting Will Exonerate Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans in Congress have orchestrated and maintained a government shutdown for more than a month now. They have yet to articulate a coherent reason for doing so, other than their ludicrous lie that they are preventing Democrats from giving free healthcare to illegal immigrants. For the record, no Democrat has advocated or proposed that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Why Won't Republicans Release the Epstein Files That They Keep Insisting Will Exonerate Trump?%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68084\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=Why Won't Republicans Release the Epstein Files That They Keep Insisting Will Exonerate Trump?%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68084\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-epstein.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68085\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In reality, what Democrats are fighting for is to prevent the GOP from destroying the Affordable Care Act &#8211; aka Obamacare &#8211; and allowing healthcare costs to skyrocket for American citizens. Meanwhile, the GOP is trying to cast the blame on Democrats, despite the fact that Republicans are in control of the House, the Senate, and the presidency. They really believe that the American people are stupid enough to buy their blatant propaganda.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68080\" target=\"_blank\">The MAGA Response to Trump\u2019s \u2018Poop on America\u2019 Video is Worse than the Disgusting Video Itself<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GOP House Speaker, MAGA Mike Johnson, has refused to open up the House of Representatives for business, leaning on the government shutdown that he and his colleagues created as an excuse. The two things have nothing to do with each other. There is no reason Congress cannot be in session during a shutdown. After all, they are all getting paid.<\/p>\n<p>The obvious reason that Johnson is putting the House on pause is that he doesn&#8217;t want to swear in a newly elected Democratic member, Adelita Grijalva. She would make the 218th signature on a discharge petition that would require the House to vote on releasing the files of the late child sex trafficker, and friend of Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein. Of course, Johnson and his minions are denying that.<\/p>\n<p>However, their denials don&#8217;t pass the smell test. The latest made up justification for avoiding doing the people&#8217;s business is to rewrite the history of the Democratic efforts to release the Epstein files. On Tuesday morning Johnson told reporters that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Democrats did not say one word about the Epstein files during the entire Biden presidency. They had all the files in the Biden DoJ. They didn&#8217;t say a word about it. Four years. Not a word. And suddenly now, they&#8217;ve somehow convinced themselves that the Epstein files will be damaging to President Trump and Republicans in some way that they&#8217;ve imagined, and so they feign outrage.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3m3pjhjgwxj2g\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreihszvsnus3ll5t7lxgzxgpwij7u4hlcoowdemecibzuxwktwbnixa\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Mike Johnson: &#34;Suddenly now, they&#39;ve somehow convinced themselves that the Epstein files will be damaging to President Trump and Republicans in some way that they&#39;ve imagined, and so they feign outrage.&#34;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc?ref_src=embed\">Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/post\/3m3pjhjgwxj2g?ref_src=embed\">2025-10-21T14:17:09.024Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nothing that Johnson said there is remotely truthful. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2025\/aug\/05\/epstein-files-democrats-khanna-massie\/\" target=\"_blank\">PolitiFact did an extensive review<\/a><\/strong> of the timeline of the Democratic efforts to reveal the truth about the Epstein affair. What they found was entirely contrary to Johnson&#8217;s fallacious rambling&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Starting in 2019, but before Epstein\u2019s arrest that year on federal sex trafficking charges, some Democratic lawmakers including Rep. Lois Frankel and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, both of south Florida, launched a years long quest to release Epstein records.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Democrats called for former U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, who served as labor secretary during Trump\u2019s first term, to testify about Epstein\u2019s plea deal. They asked the Justice Department to investigate and release records. Democrats later pursued other strategies, including asking a Palm Beach, Florida, judge to release records.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a far cry from Johnson&#8217;s deliberately dishonest claim that <em>&#8220;They didn&#8217;t say a word about it.&#8221;<\/em> Not that Johnson or his Republican cohorts care about honesty. The notoriously dishonest Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, also weighed in saying that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Democrats don&#8217;t care about transparency or accountability in this matter. The evidence we&#8217;ve gathered does not implicate President Trump in any way. Public reporting, survivor testimony, and official documents show that Bill Clinton had far closer ties to Epstein.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3m3pk2acum62n\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreihx62gcfe54igr6wxxm3swre5tdi72tukbdsapbvgmsalnu3jlyeu\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Comer: &#34;The evidence we&#39;ve gathered does not implicate President Trump in any way. Public reporting, survivor testimony, and official documents show that Bill Clinton had far closer ties to Epstein. We&#39;re working to bring former President Clinton in for a deposition, but Democrats aren&#39;t helping&#34;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc?ref_src=embed\">Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/post\/3m3pk2acum62n?ref_src=embed\">2025-10-21T14:27:36.987Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If Republicans actually have evidence that Trump is not implicated in the Epstein files, you really have to wonder why they are working so hard to avoid releasing them and exonerating their Dear Leader. In fact, if they actually had such evidence, they would have released the files months or years ago. And that&#8217;s even more true if they also have evidence that implicates former President Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to image that Republicans have any proof that Clinton <em>&#8220;had far closer ties to Epstein&#8221;<\/em> when there are years of photographic evidence of Trump and Epstein&#8217;s close friendship, but nothing similar with Clinton. Epstein was a frequent guest at Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago resort.<\/p>\n<p>The only documentation of Clinton&#8217;s association with Epstein was that he used his plane, mostly for legitimate business related to the charitable Clinton Foundation. There is zero evidence of anything else. And it was the Trump administration that put Epstein&#8217;s partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, up in a Club Fed prison after she agreed not to implicate Trump in her dirty business.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump and Johnson and the rest of the MAGA Klan really want to put the Epstein matter behind them, then they should release the files and take whatever heat happens to come their way. But they are clearly too afraid to do that. And the American people can see their fear. They can also see that Democrats aren&#8217;t the least bit afraid of demanding a full accounting and release of all the files. 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They have yet to articulate a coherent reason for doing so, other than their ludicrous lie that they are preventing Democrats from giving free healthcare to illegal immigrants. For the record, no Democrat has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,361,8,16],"tags":[275,1215,554,1487,1378,1504,301],"class_list":["post-68084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-healthcare","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-bill-clinton","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-james-comer","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-mike-johnson","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-epstein.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-hI8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68257,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68257","url_meta":{"origin":68084,"position":0},"title":"Trump Mouthpiece Whines that the Epstein Story Gets More Press than Trump &#8216;Winning&#8217; the Shutdown","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/13\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"This week has seen a couple of significant stories competing for the attention of the media. 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