South Carolina Republican Ralph Norman
A lone Republican has risked President Donald Trump‘s ire after voting with Democrats in a bid to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.
California Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna pushed an amendment to upcoming crypto legislation that would have forced Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all Epstein-related documents.
Bondi would have to share the files on a ‘publicly accessible website’ within 30 days of passage.
However, the effort was foiled, failing five to seven, during a Monday night vote by the House Rules Committee, a group of lawmakers that generally sign off on legislation before it gets a final vote on the House floor.
The sensational files, which Trump promised to release while campaigning, will remain under lock and key at the Justice Department – for now.
The president, if he’s caught wind of the nail-bitting legislative maneuver, may be unhappy with how close this effort was to succeeding as he and his Cabinet members have worked to delegitimize calls for transparency in the high-profile case.
South Carolina Republican Ralph Norman, a conservative member of the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) and a member who, at times, ruffles GOP leadership’s feathers, stunningly sided with Democrats to release the file.
And another Republican decided not to vote at all, apparently wanting to avoid flak from constituents eager to see who was implicated in the deceased pedophile’s affairs.
Norman sided with Democrats on an amendment that would have forced the Trump administration to release additional files on Jeffrey Epstein. The vote failed five to seven
Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstein chat at a social event in a still from an NBC News video from the early 2000s
California Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna authored the Epstein amendment
Texas Republican Chip Roy opted not to vote on the measure. Even if he had sided with his fellow HFC member Norman and Democrats the amendment still would’ve failed by one vote.
‘Rules voted 5-7 to block the full House from voting on my amendment to have a FULL release of the Epstein file,’ Khanna wrote on X following the failed vote.
‘People are fed up. They are fed up. Thanks @RepRalphNorman. Need to put the American people before party!’
The Republicans who voted against the amendment to release the Epstein files include: Rules Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., Michelle Fischbach, R-M.N., Chip Roy, R-Texas, Erin Houchin, R-Ind., Nicholas A. Langworthy, R-N.Y., Austin Scott, R-Ga., H. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., Brian Jack, R-Ga.
Some MAGA devotees feel betrayed by Republican’s sudden and puzzling reversal on the release of the deceased banker and his ‘client list.’
Attorney General Pam Bondi said earlier this year that the ‘client list’ was on her desk, but last week the DOJ and FBI said there is no list at all – an admission clearly at odds with the Cabinet member’s past comments.
‘America deserves the truth about Jeffrey Epstein and the rich powerful elites in his circle,’ firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., posted on X after the vote.
‘The line is drawn with anyone who abuses children and vulnerable innocent people.’
Attorney General Pam Bond has recently doused MAGA voter’s hopes by saying there’s not a Epstein ‘client list’ despite previously claiming that very ‘list’ was on her desk at work
Surveillance footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell dated August 9, 2019, with a time stamp of 12 midnight.Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday sought to tamp down outrage on the right over the Justice Department’s recent memo on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.The Justice Department and FBI released a roughly 11-hour video Monday recorded outside Epstein’s prison cell door to dispel claims Epstein did not die by suicide. Some on the far right have seized on time stamps in the video, which skip from 11:58 p.m. to midnight.
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