DAILY ACTION: September 3, 2025
2 MORE HOUSE REPUBLICANS NEED TO SIGN ONTO THE DISCHARGE PETITION TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES. CALL, EMAIL, AND FAX RIGHT NOW TO FORCE THEM TO CHOOSE A SIDE.
House GOP leaders are urging their members to steer clear of the discharge petition aiming to force the Trump administration to release all the government files on Jeffrey Epstein.
In a closed-door meeting in the basement of the Capitol, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) called on GOP lawmakers to instead support the efforts of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which is seeking more disclosures on the Epstein case from the Justice Department (DOJ), the Epstein estate, and former federal law enforcement officials who worked on the case.
The message from leadership was clear, according to Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.).
“We have a very positive alternative,” Wilson said as he emerged from the meeting.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who sponsored the discharge petition, disagrees. He spoke out during the same meeting to make the case that the DOJ simply can’t be trusted to release all the relevant information without legislation forcing the agency’s hand. Holding up his phone, he showed reporters a picture of one of the Epstein flight log documents released by the Oversight panel Tuesday evening. All of the names on the log were redacted.
“What’s clear is they’re not redacting just to protect victims; they are redacting to protect reputations,” Massie said. “Some of those people are probably innocent, but some of them are most certainly guilty.”
Massie’s discharge petition, which would force a floor vote on legislation requiring the DOJ to release virtually all its files on investigation into Epstein and his longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, needs the support of 218 House lawmakers to be successful. Because all 212 Democrats are expected to endorse it, supporters need six Republicans. Four GOP lawmakers have already signed on: Reps. Massie, Nancy Mace (S.C.), Lauren Boebert (Colo.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.). [THE HILL]
This story began in Florida when Miami Herald reporter Julie Brown uncovered the sweetheart deal given to Epstein by Miami’s top federal prosecutor at the time: Alexander Acosta, who later went on to serve as Labor Secretary in the first Trump administration.
As Florida’s attorney-general from 2011 to 2019, Pam Bondi was the state’s top prosecutor as lawsuits piled up from Epstein’s victims challenging the secret plea deal that state and federal officials negotiated in 2008. The prosecutors not only allowed Epstein and four of his co-conspirators to be immune from further prosecution for sexually exploiting women and girls, but courts concluded they also illegally hid the agreement from the victims so they could not protest the deal in court,
DEMAND JUSTICE FOR THE VICTIMS OF A SEXUAL ABUSE COVERUP THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS.