Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin’s engagement with the Jeffrey Epstein case reveals a pattern that raises questions. Why does his interest flare only when Donald Trump occupies the White House? This selective focus, juxtaposed against significant case developments he ignored during the Biden administration, demands scrutiny.
As an aside, Raskin’s father Marcus Raskin co-founded the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in 1963. America’s oldest far-left public policy institution, IPS was notorious for it’s early ties to Soviet and Cuban intelligence services.
This familial legacy of ideological activism may offer context to Raskin’s political motivations. His strategic engagement with high-profile cases like Epstein’s aligns with moments of political leverage against Trump.
Jamie Raskin Targets Trump’s Labor Secretary Alex Acosta
On March 1, 2019, with Trump in office, Raskin joined colleagues in a letter to Attorney General William Barr. The letter demanded the DOJ reopen Epstein’s 2008 plea deal, stating: “This deal effectively shut down an investigation into whether there were more victims and granted immunity to Epstein’s co-conspirators.” It also urged releasing an internal misconduct probe into Trump’s Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who, as Miami US Attorney, gave Epstein a lenient deal.
This marked Raskin’s first public move, coinciding with Trump’s first term.
By July 10, 2019, Raskin, as Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Chairman, announced a hearing with Acosta. “There are significant concerns with Secretary Acosta’s actions in approving an extremely favorable deal for an alleged sexual predator while concealing the deal from the victims,” he wrote, targeting the plea deal’s secrecy as new federal charges emerged against Epstein in New York.
On December 20, 2019, Raskin escalated his efforts, co-signing letters with Oversight Committee leaders to Barr and Florida officials, seeking documents on the plea deal. “The favorable deal for sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein and the concealment of the deal from the victims” remained his focus, even as Epstein died by suicide, halting further immediate action.
As a direct result of the scrutiny of his role in the Epstein case, Alexander Acosta stepped down as Secretary of Labor on July 19, 2019.
During Biden’s Tenure
The Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) released an executive summary shortly after Joe Biden’s election on November 12, 2020. OPR found no misconduct but noted Acosta’s “poor judgment.”
In December 2021, the court found Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell guilty of “facilitating and participating in the sexual abuse of children”.
In June 2022, the court sentenced Maxwell to 20 years in prison.
On January 3, 2024, approximately 950 pages of court documents from Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 lawsuit against Maxwell were unsealed, naming about 150 individuals connected to Epstein.
Jamie Raskin remained completely silent during these critical developments.
Trump’s Second Term and Raskin’s Reawakened Interest in Epstein
Jamie Raskin’s interest reignited in 2025 during President Trump’s second term, shortly after the FBI declared on July 6, 2025 that there was no evidence that Epstein was murdered, and that he did not have a “client list”:
This systematic review revealed no incriminating “client list.” There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.
*The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro gives a good analysis about the memo.
Note that Jamie Raskin did not say a word about the Epstein case from January 20, 2025 until July 8, 2025. A cynical person would say that the Maryland Representative smelled blood in the water, as MAGA influencers were turning up the heat on this issue.
On July 8, the Maryland Representative led 15 Democrats in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, accusing the DOJ of withholding Epstein files mentioning Trump. “Your conduct is particularly worrisome as it appears to be part of a pattern of using the DOJ to cover up evidence of criminal wrongdoing by President Trump,” he wrote, citing Elon Musk’s deleted claim that Trump “is in the Epstein files.”
On July 10, on MSNBC, Jamie Raskin doubled down: “Donald Trump and Pam Bondi are the ones who’ve got the power to release the Epstein files, so they’re the closest thing we’ve got to the deep state.”
On July 11, in an interview with Jen Psaki, Raskin declared, “We’re saying release the whole thing…”
Raskin claimed in the Psaki interview “Well, we called for the release of Epstein files in the Biden administration.” However, there is zero evidence that Jamie Raskin said anything about the Epstein files during the Biden administration.
From July 15, Jamie Raskin proposed investigating Trump DOJ officials, telling The Baltimore Banner he would request subpoenas.
On July 17, 2025, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough called out Raskin for not demanding Epstein documents during the Biden administration. Raskin answered with a word salad:
Joe Scarborough: Mr Congressman, you could’ve gotten that [all files and names associated with Epstein] from ‘21 to ‘25 when Democrats controlled the DOJ. Why – it was a crisis then, it’s a crisis now. Why didn’t Democrats call for it from ‘21 to ‘25?
Jamie Raskin: So, I mean, you’d have to go back and look specifically at particular prosecutorial decisions and what was taking place in terms of the other cases. So, I don’t know, we could try to reconstruct that record.
On July 17, on CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” he speculated:
Donald Trump said for years that they were going to release the files. And now, all of a sudden, he apparently knows what’s in the files, and he doesn’t want to release them anymore. We know he was close friends with Jeffrey Epstein.”
On July 18, he highlighted “overwhelming bipartisan, popular demand” for file release on MSNBC.
By August 6-7, Jamie Raskin accused the Trump DOJ of “organizing itself around protecting the perpetrators…”
A Clear Pattern
This timeline exposes a clear pattern. Raskin’s activism surged in 2019 under Trump, and vanished during Biden’s term. This, despite Maxwell’s conviction and document releases. His interest peaked again in 2025 after the July 6, 2025 FBI memo. Raskin’s silence on the OPR’s 2020 findings further underscores this trend.
Jamie Raskin engaged the Epstein case when Trump held power. This selective focus, absent during a Democratic administration, strongly suggests a political motive tied to Trump’s presence.
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