House GOP blocks Dem maneuver to force release of Epstein files

[riversedge]

Source: axios


4 hours ago - Andrew Solender



House Republicans on Monday night voted against attaching a Democratic amendment to landmark cryptocurrency legislation that would force the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Why it matters: It's the outcome Democrats anticipated, and one they plan to gleefully cite as President Trump continues to grapple with the MAGA fallout over the DOJ's handling of the documents.

"The question with Epstein is: Whose side are you on?" Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), the author of the Epstein measure, told Axios ahead of the vote.
"Are you on the side of the rich and powerful, or are you on the side of the people?" he said, promising to introduce the amendment "again and again and again."

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Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/07/15/trump-epstein-khanna-doj-democrats-republicans

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"The question with Epstein is: Whose side are you on?" Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), the author of the Epstein measure, told Axios ahead of the vote.

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Rep. Virginia Foxx, wearing a blue suit and putting her hands in front of her face while sitting at a wooden dais.

[Dr. T]

1. The MAGAt base assumes the alleged Epstein client list

is loaded with high-profile Democrat names. Democrats know that if the client list exists, Donnie the Child Molester is at the top.

The main thing is that, in the absence of the list, everything else is just conspiracy and speculation. MAGAts have been groomed to accept these "alternate facts" as reality. Dems leaning into it is like throwing gas on the MAGAt fire.

I'm going to make some popcorn and pull up a chair. This will be fun to watch.

[ananda]

20. If so, it shows how insanely stupid they are because...

Why would Republicans block the release if Democrats
are on it?

Hmmm

[Dr. T]

28. I'm beginning to doubt the existence of

a client list.

If that’s true, then the FBI can't release something that doesn't exist. But MAGAts will keep digging even if it's a dry hole. It will consume them and hopefully drain their energy until the MAGAt movement disappears like a fart in the wind.

[customerserviceguy]

33. Let's just say

that anyone who would believe Pizzagate would pretty much believe anything!

[calimary]

2. Um... why couldn't somebody "accidentally" sneak it out to some eager information broker?

A low-profile individual in the corner of some newsroom or obscure investigative operation who unexpectedly winds up with “the Scoop of a Lifetime”?

Just sorta kicking some ideas around…

[TheRickles]

7. Or maybe Elon....

[azureblue]

11. if Elon wants to end Trump

This is his golden opportunity. Elon should release the files loudly.

[wcmagumba]

26. I wish, but I still think Eloon vs Drump is a sham cat fight, just for distraction of us Eaters...

[Skittles]

35. Trump behaves like a cornered animal with any mention of EPSTEIN

no freaking way would that be used as a distraction

[riversedge]

3. ....... They did this in the middle of the night hoping the American people wouldn't notice. ......

Harry Sisson @harryjsisson
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13m
Republicans in Congress just BLOCKED the release of the Epstein files in the middle of the night while you were asleep. Every Democrat on the House Rules Committee voted for it while Republicans voted against it. They are running cover for Trump and hoping you wouldn’t notice.
Harry Sisson
@harryjsisson
Here’s the article on it. They did this in the middle of the night hoping the American people wouldn’t notice. Unfortunately for them, we did. And I won’t stop talking about it.

Link to tweet

[BoRaGard]

4. G.O.P. is nothing but a sick joke at this point

no moral or ethical guts at all. What a disgrace.

[Skittles]

5. EVERY DAY they show they DO NOT CARE what WE THE PEOPLE want

it boggles my mind that so many people will vote for them

[Botany]

6. Even though we have millions of mouth breathing racist, sexist, Christo Fascist, and proud to be stupid ..

…. voters … see the dumb asses in Kerr County, TX who turned down the early warning system for
the Guadalupe River … but @ the end of the day they have to cheat.

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/archive?sort=new

[hadEnuf]

8. They are brainwashed into voting for Trump. They receive nothing but fake news, outright lies,

or no real news at all. They have listened and watched that shit for decades and they believe it is the truth. Right-wing media is specifically designed for people who are closed minded and get addicted to things quickly and for the lowest of the bottom-dweller racists and haters.

Democrats, liberals and progressives should have responded with our own 'news" and with the same ferocity as the right. We never did and still haven't, so here we are. I believe it is that simple.

[moose65]

15. What would a liberal Fox News look like?

We are at a disadvantage with news, since we like to tell the truth!

Would a liberal news channel deliberately distort the truth? Would we find one or two stories about something crazy in a red state and run that over and over and over again? I doubt it.

Sometimes, the truth is boring. Competence is boring. We are handicapped in everything!

[hadEnuf]

24. There's no downside with telling the truth and shooting down the lies of Fox news and the rest.

I think a majority of the country is starved for that. Yes, MSNBC is good, but it is a peep in a room full of bigmouths. They too are also under right-wing influence through NBC.

The playing field has changed. There is no more non-partisan news anymore. They are systematically destroying NPR as we speak. It's all one sided and the loudest voice with the most money wins.

We all long for the days of the boring old news where you just got the facts and made up your own mind, but those days are gone. We need to be fighting fire with fire. Maybe use their own marketing tactics, except with the truth.

[Skittles]

23. but just how STUPID do you have to BE to believe someone like DONALD FUCKING TRUMP

I mean, come on, he is a BUFFOON, he is RIDICULOUS

[hadEnuf]

25. I know it, but they do believe him. Or at least they pretend to.

It's like they've been lulled into a video game or something.

[the nelm]

30. The question that really needs an answer, in a nutshell.

I mean, come on. Lots of noise, bluster and fury over 2020, but not an iota of actual evidence ever presented in any one of the 60 plus court cases, yet he's still going on about it. The hundreds of classified docs that he fought tooth and nail to hide and keep from the gov't, the whole thing with Stormy and E.J. Carroll, the 34 financial fraud convictions - never mind that what little that is out there with Epstein has how many photos/vids of himself palling around with the guy, along with the young women? And they continue to eat it up like candy. What kind of a gullible fool does one have to be to still, at this late date, not start to question that they've been played, up, down and sideways. It boggles the mind.

[Skittles]

31. it boggles the mind

I have long thought if you can make people believe in the guy in the sky you can make them believe ANYTHING but.....TRUMP? WTF!!!!!!!!

[LT Barclay]

17. Which is what scares me about 2026.

Obviously someone has been telling them that they don’t need to sweat the next election. So the fix is in and God help us all.

[Bev54]

27. Could be that a lot of their donors are in the Epstein files.

[MadScout]

9. Can we move back to the Big Bullshit Bill Now?

We all know this was a distraction meant to divert our attention from that.

Don't get me wrong... that list should be published and everyone on it be investigated, but they were never going to release it.

[Torchlight]

10. Oh, gosh no! That's not 'deep state' behavior at all!

C'mon, Q-tips! You're all over this! It's worldwide! There's pizza! Do your thing... or admit you're a rube who's been duped by a carnival barker-- there's just not much wiggle room on this one.

[mntleo2]

12. GOP Ghastly Old Pigs

My mama told me many years ago not to trust a Republican. At the age of 73, there is nothing more true.

Cat in Seattle

[spike jones]

14. MAGA---Molesting All Girls Always

[Linda ladeewolf]

13. I wonder

How many of their donors and possibly them are on the list?😈

[Initech]

16. He's on the list and they're in denial.

Because they want absolute power.

[samsingh]

18. gop is the hypocrite, cowardly party

they have so much to hide

[lonely bird]

19. I would like to say I am surprised.

I would like to but I can’t.

[CapnSteve]

21. Keep it up! Keep fighting, keep adding to the blue tsunami...

Accountability. Every single Republican that voted to end food for hungry kids, kick 17 million people of health care, etc. needs to pay the price in 2026.

1) Dems win the house and senate in 2026, flip red states blue (most notably Texas - people here are angry at the GOP - never seen so much energy to kick the bastards out), and win up and down the ballot.

2) The convicted felon is impeached a third time. This time the Democratic majority in the Senate votes to convict. This is not the only impeachment, however. There are many more, notably Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

3) Most of the executives in the Executive Branch run afoul of the emoluments clause (it applies to all federal office holders after all), Leading those removed from office? J. D. Vance, K. Noem and "Whiskey Pete" Hegseth.

4) In 2027, the Speaker of the House (Democrat Hakeem Jefferies) assumes the role of POTUS.

5) The decades long road to rebuild our democracy begins.

"If the world were to end tomorrow, I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. Family values Republicans

[pbmus]

29. They have to clean it up first before

They release anything

[Sessuch]

32. Well. we know one GOP member who never made the cut to be on the Epstein List

Virginia Foxx

[Jack Valentino]

34. BRAVO House GOP! That'll make you popular with the part of the magat base

who wants those filed released!

Maybe make them stay home in the mid-terms,
for which it is more difficult to get them out to vote anyway....