On Tuesday, Politico is reporting that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has called on the Department of Justice to release all of the remaining materials associated with the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his notorious operation. The facts seem a little more complicated than that.
Politico writes:
Speaker Mike Johnson is calling for the Department of Justice to release all of its information on Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in jail after being charged with sex trafficking, and wants Attorney General Pam Bondi to explain previous statements on the matter.
The Trump administration this month declined to release additional information regarding Epstein’s death, with the Justice Department and FBI concluding there’s no evidence that Epstein had a list of clients or was murdered in his jail cell. Republicans blocked a House vote on Tuesday afternoon that Democrats tried to cast as a referendum to force the White House to release the files.
In an interview published shortly after the vote, Johnson told conservative commentator Benny Johnson that he is “for transparency.”
The interview with Benny Johnson, in which the Speaker made this statement, appears on the Speaker’s YouTube channel. It’s dated as having been issued on Tuesday, but the actual interview took place after the One Big Beautiful Bill vote.
In that interview, which, as noted, took place not long after the OBBB vote, Benny Johnson asked:
This is sort of on the heels of something else that a lot of people are asking questions about. And because we’ve been lied to by our federal government for so long, I feel like there’s some kind of pain point, right, and a pressure cooker that gets heated up on issues like the Epstein issue. And obviously that’s something that’s taken over a lot of the online dialogue. I have a question here about it that concerns either testifying or testimony for Ghislaine Maxwell potentially before Congress or if you would support members like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Anna Paulina Aluna on the release of subpoena, subpoenaing the Epstein documents from DOJ whether you would support either of those.
The Speaker replied:
Yeah, I haven’t talked with Marjorie or Anna about that specific subject, but I’m for transparency. We’re intellectually consistent in this. We… look, (President) Reagan used to tell us that we should trust the American people. Well, I believe in that principle. I know President Trump does as well, and I trust him. I mean, he put together a team of his choosing, and they’re doing a great job. It’s a very delicate subject, but we should put everything out there and let the people decide it. I mean, the White House and the White House team are privy to facts I don’t know, I mean, this isn’t my lane. I haven’t been involved in that. But I agree with the sentiment that we need to, we need to put it out there. And you know, Pam Bondi, I don’t know when she originally made the statement, I think she was talking about documents as I understood it that were on her desk. I don’t know that she was specific about a list or whatever, but she needs to come forward and explain that to everybody.
This doesn’t really seem like a full-throated demand for the release of all of the Epstein files. Nor does it seem like there’s a great deal of distance between the Speaker and President Trump on this.
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The president and Speaker Johnson both made statements on Tuesday about this affair:
Trump on Tuesday defended Bondi amid calls for her to step down.
“The attorney general has handled that very well. She’s really done a very good job, and I think that when you look at that, you’ll understand it,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
Johnson on Tuesday said he is “anxious” to get the issue resolved.
“We need the DOJ focusing on the major priorities. Let’s get this thing resolved so that they can deal with violent crime and public safety and election integrity and going after ActBlue and the things that the president is most concerned about,” said Johnson.
There honestly doesn’t seem to be a lot of daylight between the two.
This story will no doubt continue to unfold. Stay tuned.
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