Watch: Trump allies divided on Epstein transparency

The Republican senators have offered a range of answers when they were pressed on how the Trump administration has managed the controversy of Epstein files, some calling it a distraction and others arguing that the American people have “entitled” to responses.

The Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the “first phase” of the declassified files linked to Jeffrey Epstein on February 27, noting that this decision followed the commitment of President Donald Trump to “lift the veil” on Epstein and the actions of his co-conspirator. Bondi also declared the same month that she was in possession of a “list of customers” from Epstein.

However, the declassification of February mainly contained information and files which had already been accessible to the public, and the Ministry of Justice then indicated that no “list of customers” exists. Since then, a series of events, including a confrontation between the deputy director of the FBI, Dan Bongino and the Attorney General of Bondi, has led to pressure on the Trump administration to publish more files.

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Trump’s relationship with Epstein was more examined after his DOJ under the Attorney General Pam Bondi recently said that there was no “client list” of Epstein. (Getty Images)

“It is factual. Epstein has treated many young women, some of whom were minors. The American people have the right to know who – if someone – tracked these young women, apart from himself, and why they were not prosecuted,” said John Kennedy, R -La., Said.

“Now, this is a very simple question that is basically all of this. The Ministry of Justice will have to answer this question to the satisfaction of the American people.”

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Kennedy’s call for transparency comes after the president described the situation of Epstein as a “hoax” while exploding democrats and other “weak” who continue to buy it.

“Their new scam is what we will forever call hoax Jeffrey Epstein, and my former supporters have joined this` `bull —- ‘,’ hook, line and sinker,” wrote Trump on his social platform of truth last month in the midst of the amounts of the internal division in the administration on his management of the Epstein Case Epstein case

When he was asked how the Trump administration managed Epstein furor, Senator Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., Said that he thought that the situation was used by Democrats to create a “distraction” from current surveys on former President Biden and others, such as the investigation linked to the use by Biden of Biden of the Autocorce manufacturing tool to access Tricmos and The fact that Obama’s documents are evidence of the era of Obama’s mistake to prove Trump for the Russian.

Senators Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., On the left, and John Kennedy, r-la., Shared their catch on the way the Trump administration manages the controversy of Epstein. (Getty Images)

“Look at what is the subject of an investigation right now via the Biden administration. … So what are they going to talk about now?” Mullin asked. “It is nothing more than a distraction of the real facts that leaves the Biden administration. Of course, the Democrats say:” Well, we are roughly transparency. “Well, where was transparency in the past four years?”

Democrats suggested that Trump could be involved in the files, but Mullin said that if such a circumstance was true, the information would have been disclosed by the Biden administration.

The Mullin counterpart in the Senate, the Oklahoma republican senator, James Lankford, has taken more common ground in his answer on the way the administration managed Epstein files.

Senator James Lankford, R-Okla., On the left, and Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, Talk while going to the American Capitol for the votes on July 31, 2025, in Washington, DC (SOMODEVILLA / GETTY Images)

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“The challenge is that there are people who are victims who are there, and there are people who are not criminals who are also there,” said Lankford. “And the challenge of the Ministry of Justice is that you have a daughter who was 14, 16 years old and who was mistreated. Well, now she is, let’s say 26 or 30, married and has children.

“Maybe his family knows, maybe they don’t do it. I don’t know the situation, but we have to find a way to be able to protect people who are real victims on all this as well as to get as much information as possible.”

For senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, the debate on Epstein files was not something she wanted to talk about when she was approached by Fox News Digital.

“I’m going,” said Collins when he pressed the question outside the Capitol complex.