Democratic senator Elissa Slotkin changes the position on the release of Epstein documents
The Democratic Senator postponed Epstein files in 2020
Senator Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., Who criticized the management by the Trump administration of Epstein files, previously said in 2020 that the question was not “in mind”. (Credit: shooting line)
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Senator Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., According to “weird” that the Trump administration did not publish documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, but at some point, it was the last thing in mind.
The Democrats sought an opening to refine their messages against the Republicans and jumped on the administration and their colleagues through the aisle to release the documents. But the Republicans asked why their counterparts did not have the same energy when the former president Joe Biden was in power.
In a recent interview on PBS’s “shooting line”, Slotkin, which has become a leading voice in the Democratic Party, said that even if she did not know what was in the documents, it was strange that President Donald Trump and his administration did not free them.
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Senator Elissa Slotkin repeats the democratic response to President Donald Trump to a joint congress session on March 4, 2025, in Wyandotte, Michigan. (Paul Sancya – Pool / Getty Images)
“The president and his allies have created so much anticipation about these files at this stage, it is just weird that they do not publish them, right? The president has foyé,” she said.
But almost five years ago, before the possible victory of Biden and a Democratic trifecta in Washington, the question of Epstein was not a priority for the legislator, who at the time was at his first mandate in the House.
In a 2020 video obtained by Fox News Digital, Slotkin said that diving in the links between former President Bill Clinton and Epstein was not “in mind”.
The feeling came in response to a question about the reasons why there had been no mention of the allegations according to which Clinton was in the Treasury of documents related to Epstein. She argued that there were more urgent problems at the time, such as the Cavid-19 pandemic in progress and the economic benefits stimulated by her.
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Trump’s relationship with Epstein was more examined while his DOJ under the Attorney General Pam Bondi recently allegedly alleged that there was no “customer list” of Epstein. (Getty Images)
“Faced with these problems, I will be honest, I do not spend a ton of time examining the links between Bill Clinton and other people, because it does not help my voters every day, right? And my work is to focus on these problems,” she said.
“I have no particular knowledge of these problems, but my work consists in focusing on the things that affect the wallets of people and their children, and if I do not make positive progress towards this, I do not do my job,” she continued. “And so, I cannot answer your question, because that’s not where I live and where I focus.”
Fox News Digital contacted Slotkin to comment on this report but did not hear.
“ Not to disappear ”: inside the Epstein drama which threw the gop house in chaos
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)
The Democrats of Congress, and some Republicans, were pressure for more transparency on the part of the Trump administration on the release of a mine of documents, known as so-called Epstein files, in a saga that swallowed up for a large part of July.
The fury of the congress stems from a service note from the Ministry of Justice released earlier this month which said that the Epstein affair was closed and has not lost vapor since.
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Epstein’s intrigue paralyzed the room, which made the president of the Mike Johnson room, R-La., Returns the legislators to the house early while a bipartite swell grew up to discover the documents.
The Senate was less chaotic. However, the Senate Democrats have increased their messages against the administration, while many Senate Republicans would prefer to concentrate their attention elsewhere.
