Washington – Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers traveled to Capitol Hill this week to implore President Donald Trump and Congress released all government archives related to investigation into the late financial and sentenced financial financing.
Despite this pressure campaign, it is not clear if more documents will be made public or if the names of others who participated in Epstein’s crimes will come to light.
The legislators who press for the launch of the records say they are on their way to collect enough signatures to force a vote at the end of the month that would require the Department of Justice to release the archives. But the so -called high request would still need to pass the Senate, which remains a great questioning sign.
Behind the scene, the White House has been trying to kill the petition, pointing to the trio of Republican women who have signed, as well as the other Republicans who could join them, members said. “President Trump has been very clear in this for a while, even again this morning: the Democrats are pushing the Democrats to distract from their victories,” said a Trump advisor to NBC News on Friday (although many of the calls to launch the Epstein files come from the president’s own party).
“Everyone here are on the same page with that, and anyone who continues to focus on this, regardless of the part, will not be well received,” warned the advisor, about the condition of the anonymity to discuss internal thinking.
The leaders of the Republican party in the hill say that the rogue download effort is wrong and could run the risk of identifying Epstein victims who do not want to make public. They say that the Chamber’s Supervision Committee is already investigating the matter.
One way to avoid the dead point: the accusers themselves told journalists who are compiling a list of Epstein’s accomplices that the representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, republican of G-GA., Said he could read on the floor of the house.
“Unless we learn from this story, monsters like Epstein will rise again,” said one of Epstein’s accusers, Chauntae Davies, at a press conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. “There are files, government archives, which support the truth about Epstein, whom he knew, who owed him, who protected him and why he was allowed to operate for so long without consequences.”
“Why was Maxwell only responsible when so many others played a role? Why does the government hide this public information?” She continued, referring to Epstein’s associate, Ghislaine Maxwell.
This is where things are with Epstein’s issue after an emotionally charged week in Washington.
Will the camera vote to release Epstein files?
The representatives Thomas Massie, R-Ky., And Rosta Khanna, D-Calif., The bipartisan duo that leads the impulse of the high request, are projecting the confidence that they can ensure the 218 firms necessary to force a vote to release all the archives of the Department of Justice in the case of Epstein.
“I’ve always said he will take until the end of the month, and I’m sure,” Khanna told NBC News.
They are close to their goal, but not quite. Until now, Massie and Khanna have 215 signatures in the petition. Only a Democrat has not signed: representative Eric Swalwell, Democrat of California, who has not been in DC this week after his mother’s death, but will sign it, according to Khanna.
The other three Republicans who have signed are conservative women: the representatives Nancy Mace of South Carolina, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Lauren Boebert of Colorado.
Khanna called the three “very brave” women. But he acknowledged that two more Republicans need to reach 218 and said that he and Massie are “in conversations” with 13 other Republicans, whom they are not naming.
The representative Victoria Spartz, Republican of Indiana, who attended a large part of the press conference with the victims of Epstein this week, said she is still in the fence and that she tries to obtain more information.
“The high request became so polarized and political, it will probably not go through the Senate anyway,” said Spartz, added: “But I think we must be openly and really find a resolution.”
However, by the end of the month, no more republican firms may be needed. Soon special elections will be held to occupy seats previously vacant by the Democrats. The special choice to fill the seat of the late representative Gerry Connolly in Virginia is scheduled for Tuesday, while the special elections to fill the seat of the late representative Raul Grijalva in Arizona will take place on September 23. Democrats are almost sure to win in those districts of deep blue.
Once the new members swear and if they sign the petition, the magical number of 218 could be reached. That is, of course, if none of the three Republican women he signed with a recoil.
The high request does not expire until the end of the 119th Congress, in January 2027.
Will Trump be inclined to the pressure?
The Epstein archives saga has divided Republicans both in Capitol Hill and at the Maga base for months. A frustrated Trump said he is satisfied with the management of the subject of the Department of Justice and is ready to move forward.
In a long social position on Friday, Trump accused the Democrats of socializing with Epstein when he was alive (Trump did the same) and criticized the struggle for the archives as “another Democratic deception, just like Russia, Russia, Russia” to distract Trump’s success.
“The Department of Justice has done its work, has given them all the request. It is time to put an end to Epstein’s Democratic deception and give the Republicans credit for the great legendary work they are doing.”
White House officials have been applying pressure to the Republicans in Congress who have signed the high request or who listed their name as co -confinement of the underlying mass resolution that requires the Department of Justice to release them. Publishing those names may have been a false step by Massie and Khanna; He gave the White House a road map of which he is directed exactly. Eleven Republicans copatocinated the legislation, but only three of them signed the petition.
A White House official said that Republicans who bind to the effort are dedicated to a “hostile act” against Trump.
“I received a lot of rejection. I received a phone call after the phone call last night. They didn’t want me to sign the high request,” Greene said Wednesday at the conservative transmission show Eric Bolling, “Real America’s Voice.”
She said Trump employees are advising him badly about Epstein’s issue and replied that the real hostile act was when Epstein violated women.
“I told the president this morning, I want to see these women bring to the Oval office. And I want him to be the hero and the champion of this problem, and I want him to fight for these women because I know he is a fighter,” Greene added. “When he fights for something, for a problem, and fight for people, especially innocent victims of Jeffrey Epstein, then surpasses everyone.”
Will the names of Epstein’s accomplices be revealed?
Almost 50 minutes after Wednesday’s press conference arrived surprising development: Podcast and former Lisa Phillips model said she and other accusers of Epstein would compile her own list of Epstein associates.
“The Congress must choose: will it continue to protect the predators or finally protect the survivors? Phillips asked.” Together as survivors, we will confile confidentially the names that we all know, which were regularly in the world of Epstein. … are attentive for more details. “
Greene said she would read that list on the floor of the house if the accusers want that.
“I’m not afraid to name names,” Greene said. “And so, if you want to give me a list, I will enter that Capitol on the floor of the house and say every damn name that abused these women. I can do that for them, and I would be proud to do it.”
Later, Massie said he would be willing to join Greene in that effort, citing the discourse and debate clause of the Constitution, which protects the members of the Congress from civil lawsuits and criminal prosecution for the actions carried out in their legislative capacity.
“So, that is a way of getting a list if the survivors want to compile it,” Massie said. “I don’t know the timeline. The timeline would depend on how long it would take a list, and if they wanted to do it or not.”
Will Congress get more documents?
Earlier this week, the Supervision Committee published 33,295 pages of records that had cited from the Department of Justice related to the case of Epstein. Many of the published documents were public presentations that had previously been available.
Representative Robert García de California, the committee’s main democrat, said only 3% of the files were new. A republican spokesman in the committee defended the statement, saying that the Department of Justice “is providing documents on a continuous basis.”
The president of the Chamber Supervision Committee, James Eat, R-Ky., He called this an “initial lot” of the records, with the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, Republican of La-La., Saying that there are more records to come.
“This is the beginning and not the end,” said Johnson.
Supervision employees will meet next week with Epstein’s lawyers in New York City, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
The bipartisan group of the personnel may review the unworthy documents as part of the investigation of the Committee on Epstein, the sources said. The Committee cited the farm for materials in its possession, including the “Leather Book Informed compiled by Mrs. Ghislaine Maxwell for Mr. Jeffrey Epsin’s 50th birthday” in 2003, which reported the Wall Street Journal includes a raw Trump card. Trump has denied having written the card and has sued the magazine.
CNN was the first to report the planned meeting next week.
Eating said the farm will begin to deliver materials to the committee on September 8. These documents are expected to have writings, although the personnel traveling to New York City will be able to see unworthy versions, according to one of the sources.
