EPSTEIN files create a political rift while DMS suddenly grow to total transparency

After years of republicans at the head of government’s transparency on Jeffrey Epstein, the notoriously well-connected sex offender who died in prison in 2019, the Democrats are now carrying out the accusation to release the so-called “Epstein files”.

“I’m glad they joined the party, but they should have been a little more transparent a year ago,” said representative Mark Messmer, R-Ind., Fox News Digital told Fox.

Seizing the request of the Republicans of Transparency about Epstein during the administration of former president Joe Biden, President Donald Trump campaigned in 2024 to publish the “Epstein files” and his “list of allegedly incriminating customers”.

But the Ministry of Justice of Trump (DoJ) and the FBI published a memo this week By concluding that Epstein died by suicide in his cell, there is no “list of customers” and the supposed “Epstein files” are thousands of sexual abuse equipment for illegal children and other pornographies subject to a seal ordered by the court.

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Composite image of President Donald Trump and disagreement Jeffrey Epstein. . (Getty Images)

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“We have to expect transparency, whatever the administration involved, if there was or that there was no list of customers, if there was or was not a video. I mean, we should expect transparency and complete disclosure of everything they cover,” Messmer at Fox News Digital.

Democrats quickly seized the intraparty conflict.

“It’s quite rich on their part,” said the representative. David KustoffR-Tenn., Said Fox News Digital. “But again, if there is no new information, then that’s good. Ask the Ministry of Justice to go out and explain this and answer questions. And if there is something, but it is not relevant, well, explain that too.”

Chamber Mike Johnson, on the right, accompanied by President Donald Trump, talks to the media members while leaving a republican meeting of the room at the American Capitol on May 20, 2025, in Washington. (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)

The president of the room, Mike Johnson, R-La., Reiterated that “all credible evidence should come out” concerning Epstein and criticized the Democrats who, according to him, politicize the question.

The California Democratic representative Ro Khanna equalized a procedural vote on the publication of all Epstein files to a Crypto bill not linked earlier this week, and representative Marc Veasey, D-Texas, announced that he would deposit a resolution on Monday to demand the release of the Trump administration linked to the cause of the late pedophile.

The Democrats of the Chamber’s Judicial Committee, notably Jamie Raskin, D-MD., Jerry Nadler, Dn.y., and progressives like Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., And Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas., Also enter the Republican fractures compared to the Epstein case, considering a public inquiry.

The representative Ralph Norman, RS.C., arrives for a meeting of the Republicans of the Chamber at the Capitol Visitor Center on the bill on budget reconciliation on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

“Democrats will never give credit to Donald Trump for nothing,” said representative Ralph Norman, Rs.C., to Fox News Digital. “”Where were the questions when Biden was in power? “”

And representative Beth van Duyne, R-Texas, said that the new investments of Democrats in transparency on Epstein “prove that everyone was just political.”

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“I respect a call for transparency,” said the representative. Blake MooreRutah, added. “If it is a democrat or a republican, I fully respect this. I have no idea anything on this front. And I just hope to know that people are transparent and that things are not done in a harmful way or for a harmful reason. I think that many things are exaggerated.”

“I put the Epstein file in my Don’t Know file, does not care,” said representative Tom McClintock, R-Calif., Fox News Digital said.