Trump Now Demands House Republicans Vote To Make Epstein Files Public
President Donald Trump is urging House Republicans to back a vote this week that would force the Justice Department to release all remaining files tied to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump’s latest push comes days after he ordered the DOJ to open an investigation into Epstein’s ties to prominent Democrats like former President Bill Clinton, venture capitalist Reid Hoffman, and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has signaled that the vote could come this week. If passed by the House, the bill would still need 60 votes in the Senate to make it to Trump’s desk for final approval.
“As I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the Fake News Media, House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files,” Trump posted to Truth Social. “We have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party.”
Trump said that the DOJ has already turned over pages of documents and that the House Oversight Committee can access any records it is legally allowed to see.
“Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive and, if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it before our Landslide Election Victory,” Trump said. “Some ‘members’ of the Republican Party are being ‘used,’ and we can’t let that happen.”
He warned that the Epstein narrative is a distraction designed to undermine Republican momentum ahead of the 2026 midterms and shift attention away from the party’s legislative and economic wins, including defeating the Democrats’ shutdown.
In the same post, Trump reminded followers that he previously directed the DOJ to dig into the Epstein connections of prominent Democrat-linked figures. In another post, he doubled down, saying any Democrat with a “sleazy relationship” with Epstein should face prosecution.
Despite the renewed focus on Epstein from the media, Trump called for Republicans to stay focused on his core agenda—economic growth, tax relief, border security, and the hundreds of billions in new investment commitments under his leadership.
Last week, House Democrats released a batch of Epstein-related emails, including messages in which Epstein allegedly claimed that Trump “knew about the girls” and “spent hours” with one of Epstein’s victims. However, the House Oversight Committee released 20,000 pages of additional documents, and the White House confirmed that none of the materials tied Trump to any of Epstein’s crimes.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified that the woman referenced in the emails was the late Virginia Giuffre—who never accused Trump of any misconduct.