Trump is running scared from the Epstein files and the victims who deserve answers Opinion

Do the Republican members of the House helping Speaker Johnson and President Trump hide the Epstein files from the American people side with sexual predators?

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Instead, they got pathetic political theater from House Speaker Mike Johnson, the Louisiana Republican doing everything in his power to protect President Donald Trump from whatever it is that frightens him in what has become known as the Epstein files.

Epstein's victims need more Republicans to care

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If that sounds familiar, that's because Attorney General Pam Bondi tried and failed with the same sleight of hand in February, calling Trump allies to the White House to give them binders of Epstein documents that they could have just found on the internet.

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So you have to wonder why Trump officials have been calling House members this week, saying that signing on to the Massie-Khanna discharge petition would be seen as a "hostile act." Trump and Johnson want to appear transparent with the Epstein files while keeping them secret.

You can tell Trump is scared.

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Speaking in the Oval Office, he called the push for transparency "a Democrat hoax" to "talk about something that's totally irrelevant" just minutes after the accusers against Epstein and Maxwell stood outside the Capitol, insisting that they are not a hoax and that this is not political. Nobody smears crime victims like that unless they have something to fear.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/09/04/trump-attacks-epstein-victims-hoax/85960326007/