Only 13 percent see transparency on Epstein case: Fox News poll
Just 13 percent of voters in a new survey said that they think the Trump administration has been open and transparent with information in its probe of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's case.
The Fox News poll, released late Wednesday, shows that Republicans were more favorable in assessing the Trump administration's handling of what's been dubbed the "Epstein files," but 60 percent of GOP respondents said they do not think the administration has been transparent.
Meanwhile, 74 percent of Democrats and 64 percent of independents said they didn't think that the president had been open and transparent, according to the survey.
Epstein, who was known in elite circles in New York and Florida, died in a New York City prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. He was a former associate of Trump, but the two had a falling out decades ago.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI concluded its probe earlier this month, finding that Epstein didn't have a "client list" that would connect his crimes to anyone else.
Congress has become bogged down amid pressure to release more information on the case, though. House lawmakers left for their August recess as Democrats sought to force the release of more documents through efforts at the Capitol.
"There's no purpose for the Congress to push an administration to do something they’re already doing," House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters during a news conference Wednesday.
Johnson added that the chamber would take "appropriate action" when it returns this fall if the Trump administration does not release more information.
The latest poll also found that 19 percent of respondents surveyed said they had not been following the Epstein case, including a quarter of independents.
Fox News surveyed 1,000 registered voters across the country from July 18-21 and the poll has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.