A protester holds an indication associated to the discharge of the Jeffrey Epstein case information exterior the US Capitol in Washington, DC, Nov. 12, 2025.
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A petition within the Home of Representatives to drive a vote to launch the so-called Jeffrey Epstein information on Wednesday secured the final signature required to set off that motion.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.., inside hours stated {that a} full Home vote on that effort might be held subsequent week.
Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., offered the 218th signature wanted to approve the petition shortly after she was sworn in as a Home member, after a seven-week delay.
The Trump administration has been beneath fireplace for months for reneging on guarantees to launch investigative information associated to Epstein, a convicted intercourse offender who killed himself in 2019 after his arrest on youngster intercourse trafficking costs.
Epstein had been a good friend of President Donald Trump for years earlier than they’d a falling out within the early 2000s.
The New York Instances reported Wednesday that Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican, was summoned to the White Home to satisfy with high Justice Division and FBI officers as Trump tries to move off the Home vote, The New York Instances reported.
Boebert has supported the trouble to drive a vote within the Home on the Epstein information.
Home Democrats earlier Wednesday launched greater than 20,000 paperwork obtained from Epstein’s property beneath a subpoena.
The paperwork embrace emails and textual content messages during which Epstein talked about Trump.
“I understand how soiled donald is,” Epsten wrote in a 2018 electronic mail thread for Kathryn Ruemmler, who served as former President Barack Obama’s White Home counsel, after she despatched Epstein an article about Trump’s ex-personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen’s pleading responsible to marketing campaign finance violations and agreeing to cooperate in a federal investigation of the president.
In a separate April 2019 electronic mail launched by Democrats, Epstein advised writer Michael Wolff that Trump “knew concerning the ladies.” It’s unclear what the phrase “knew concerning the ladies” meant.
In one other newly launched electronic mail that Epstein wrote to his now-convicted confederate Ghislaine Maxwell in April 2011, Epstein wrote, “I would like you to comprehend that the canine that hasn’t barked is trump.”
Epstein added in that very same electronic mail that an individual whom the Democrats recognized as a sufferer of his, whose title was redacted within the electronic mail, “spent hours at my home with” Trump.
“He has by no means as soon as been talked about,” Epstein added in that message.
It’s not clear what Epstein was referring to within the electronic mail that stated “the canine that hasn’t barked.”
CNBC has not independently verified the paperwork launched by the Democrats.
Trump has denied having identified about Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage ladies and younger girls after they had been socializing with one another. The president has by no means been charged with wrongdoing in reference to Epstein.
Trump blasted the Democrats in a Reality Social publish that accused them of utilizing the Epstein paperwork to distract People from the price of the U.S. authorities shutdown.
“The Democrats are attempting to carry up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax once more as a result of they will do something in any respect to deflect on how badly they’ve performed on the Shutdown, and so many different topics,” Trump wrote.
“Solely a really dangerous, or silly, Republican would fall into that lure,” he wrote.
“The Democrats price our Nation $1.5 Trillion {Dollars} with their current antics of viciously closing our Nation, whereas on the similar time placing many in danger — and they need to pay a good value,” Trump stated.
“There ought to be no deflections to Epstein or anything, and any Republicans concerned ought to be targeted solely on opening up our Nation, and fixing the large harm brought on by the Democrats!”
