On Sunday’s broadcast of This Week on ABC, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Department of Justice is open to allowing lawmakers to review unredacted materials related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
A federal judge shut down an Epstein files-related request from Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), stating that the case in question is "effectively closed."
Republican leadership in the U.S. House dispatched lawmakers home early Wednesday, cutting short the session by a day before the standard six‑week August recess. The move appeared designed to stall votes on Democratic efforts to publish full case files on Jeffrey Epstein—the politically connected sex offender who died in custody in 2019.
Ghislaine Maxwell met for a second straight day with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in a closed-door session, as the Trump administration faces mounting demands to release additional files tied to Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell, serving a 20-year sentence in a Florida federal prison, was accompanied by her attorney, David Markus, during the discussions in Tallahassee.
Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, has called for the release of the files linked to Jeffrey Epstein—after safeguarding the identities of Epstein’s victims. Speaking as a father of three and a former U.S. Army Apache pilot, Hunt was blunt: “If anybody harmed my children in that manner, I would rip out their thorax and feed it to them.”
Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) are pressing Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all Department of Justice records related to Jeffrey Epstein, citing bipartisan demands for transparency following a controversial DOJ memo that dismissed public concerns surrounding Epstein’s death and potential ties to powerful third parties.
