Republicans Abandon Their Own Epstein Bill in Cave to Trump

Republicans are still doing everything they can to help Trump avoid answering any more questions about Jeffrey Epstein. 

The House GOP is delaying, perhaps indefinitely, its own non-binding resolution asking the Justice Department to release more Epstein documents. The resolution would do nothing to actually force the DOJ to follow through on this request, but even that is too apparently much for House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has delayed the vote to give his party more  time to control the narrative and weather the blowback they’ve received from Democrats and MAGA loyalists alike. 

Johnson will not bring the bill to a vote before August recess, if at all, according to Politico’s sources.

If Johnson and House Republican leadership really cared about transparency and truth on Epstein, they’d simply bring the bipartisan resolution led by Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna to a vote. But they won’t, because they care more about protecting Trump than they do keeping promises. And the backlash continues. 

“If you tell the base of people, who support you, of deep state treasonous crimes, election interference, blackmail, and rich powerful elite evil cabals, then you must take down every enemy of The People. If not. The base will turn and there’s no going back,” Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a hardline MAGA conspiracy theorist, wrote on X Monday in reference to the GOP’s dawdling pace on the Epstein files. “Dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies. They want the whole steak dinner and will accept nothing else.”