Scoop: Democrats probe whether Trump is in the Epstein files [View all]

Source: Axios

Updated 12 hours ago


House Democrats are asking the Department of Justice and FBI whether it is true, as Elon Musk now claims, that President Trump is in the Epstein files, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: It's the starkest example to date of how the highly public feud between the president and his onetime lieutenant is playing right into the hands of the Trump's political opponents.

Trump "is in the Epstein files," Musk wrote Thursday in a post on X, adding, "That is the real reason they have not been made public."

The Tesla CEO also called for Trump to be impeached, a position that even many Democrats are reluctant to take.

Driving the news: In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel first obtained by Axios, Reps. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) asked that they "immediately clarify whether this allegation is true."

The lawmakers asked for a timeline of the DOJ's declassification and publication of the Epstein files, an explanation for why they haven't turned over any new documents since February.

And they requested a description of Trump's role in reviewing the files, a list of personnel involved in their release and an answer for why files previously released to Congress contained "significant redactions."

Lynch is the acting ranking member of the House Oversight Committee and Garcia is the top Democrat on the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets.

The other side: "Oversight Democrats are engaged in another baseless stunt that bears no weight in fact or reality," White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in a statement to Axios.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/06/trump-epstein-files-doj-democrats-musk-bondi

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You mean like the stunt that this same Committee (whose Chair is James Comer) is doing by sending a subpoena to the doctor of a former President to gin up some kind of false and debunked narrative?