I think it’s fair to say that President Trump has been and still is very much over everything to do with Jeffrey Epstein.

With his recent break with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene making headlines, and MTG claiming that it MUST be because she signed the discharge petition in the House to release all of the Epstein Files, it’s clear that Trump is done with the Epstein files. On Sunday night, the president posted on Truth Social, stating that he wants everything that can be released out there, and he’s got nothing to hide.

That is quite a wall of text, isn’t it? Let’s take a moment to break it all down.

First off, Trump says that he and the Republicans “have nothing to hide.” As we all know, this is pretty much borne out by the fact that the Biden DOJ, who had full control of the Epstein files for four years, released nothing that was compromising on Donald Trump. And yes, if they had had something, it would have been out there. That DOJ, run by the execrable Merrick Garland, would not have hesitated to launder that kind of information in the media ecosystem in order to kill off a Trump election run. There is no way that Joe Biden, who called Trump a threat to democracy, would have blinked an eye about dumping chum into the water to remove Trump from the race. Plus, Congressman Tim Burchett tried a unanimous consent motion just last week, and Democrats refused – probably because they want all the draaaaaama of a vote.

Now, what the survivors endured should not be minimized. And they are pushing for the House vote on this discharge petition.

However, it should be noted that these same survivors spoke to House leadership back in September. They said at the time that neither Donald Trump or Bill Clinton were involved. So the only reason the media cares about this NOW, is because it is a cudgel for them to use against Donald Trump.

Did I miss this all-hands-on-deck push from the media and cultural establishment for the release last year when Biden could’ve done it unilaterally? https://t.co/ftIo1orDOA

— Sunny (@sunnyright) November 16, 2025

And the Democrats do not have clean hands when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and his crimes. Delegate Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat from the Virgin Islands, has now been outed as actually TEXTING EPSTEIN HERSELF during a House hearing in February 2019. Her excuse is… less than stellar, shall we say.

“During the hearing, Congresswoman Plaskett received texts from staff, constituents and the public at large offering advice, support and in some cases partisan vitriol, including from Epstein,” the statement read. “As a former prosecutor she welcomes information that helps her get at the truth and took on the GOP that was trying to bury the truth. The congresswoman has previously made clear her long record combating sexual assault and human trafficking, her disgust over Epstein’s deviant behavior and her support for his victims.”

Epstein had deep ties to the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he formerly owned a pair of private islands, Great Saint James and Little Saint James. His primary residence was on Little Saint James, where, according to a settlement in a lawsuit brought against Epstein’s estate by the U.S. Virgin Islands, “many of his crimes occurred.” A 2023 Business Insider investigation showed that Epstein donated large sums of money to U.S. Virgin Islands politicians, including to Plaskett.

After Epstein’s arrest in 2019, Plaskett’s office initially said she was unlikely to return her campaign donations from the disgraced financier, but reversed course after public backlash.

And now Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is in hot water for somehow having in his possession, and then releasing, illegally obtained emails between Ghislaine Maxwell and her attorney.

Leah Saffian, a California-based attorney who has long-represented Maxwell, said in a statement: “The release to the media by Congressman Raskin (Dem., Maryland), of Ms. Maxwell’s privileged client-attorney email correspondence with me is as improper as it is a denial of justice.”

Saffian added that employees at the prison have been met with “appropriate consequences.”

“They have been terminated for improper, unauthorized access to the email system used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to allow inmates to communicate with the outside world,” she said.

Earlier this week, Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, released what he said was information about Maxwell’s life inside the Bryan prison — including special privileges being afforded to the late-Jeffrey Epstein’s right-hand woman — that was shared with Raskin by a whistleblower.

The whistleblower also told Raskin that Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison, is in the process of preparing to file an application for commutation. According to an email that the whistleblower shared with the committee, Maxwell wrote to Saffian in early October that she planned to send materials “through the warden.”

House Judiciary Committee Democrats on Friday defended how they received and released the information and disputed that the correspondence was privileged.

Raskin claims that this was all done via “whistleblower” – except that no whistleblower would be protected for releasing communication that violates attorney-client privilege, which is likely why people were fired. So how did Raskin get those emails – and why would Raskin WANT those emails?

President Trump is correct that the re-emergence of the Epstein story back into the media is a diversion after the government shutdown ended and Democrats walked away with nothing to show for it. But does the president actually need the discharge petition to release files? The answer is no. He can release everything that is not tied up in court. Will it satisfy everyone – or anyone? Of course not – for the conspiracy theorists, the “smoking gun” is always in what can’t be released to the public. But, if Trump does release what he is legally able to, then his part in this is over. There will be nothing more that he can have released that isn’t subject to a court order. Attorney General Bondi has already botched the rollout of documents once – it would be wise for the Trump DOJ to release everything that they can, and call it a day. Eventually, it’s going to get out there – either through this bill, or by a future administration.

And if Trump does that, then he is the one who springs the “Epstein trap,” and it will be over and done. If he truly does not care about the files and is convinced that Republicans have “nothing to hide,” then it’s time to take the cudgel out of the hands of the opposition and whack them over the head with it. The president is correct that if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it earlier. He is also correct that it would be smarter for Republicans to focus on the economy. The fastest way to get to that point? Wash his hands of the Epstein Files by releasing everything he can, and then informing everyone that his job here is done.

Featured image: President Donald Trump on November 5, 2025, official White House photo by Molly Riley, cropped, public domain