House Votes on Epstein Files Release – RedState | Political News
The Epstein Files saga has dominated a lot of the news coverage for months now, but on Tuesday, the House of Representatives held a key vote to finally release them. The vote wasn’t close, with only one “nay” tallied:
The House on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to move a invoice directing the Department of Justice to release the recordsdata associated to the late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, a transfer that got here after months of intense opposition from President Trump and GOP leaders.
The vote was a lopsided 427-1, with Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) casting the lone “no” vote. But that tally belied the months of fierce combating — both between the events and within the GOP — that preceded it.
Trump Calls Democrats’ Bluff, Demands Republicans Release the Epstein Files
Trump had been against the release of the recordsdata, but lately modified his thoughts and advocated for full disclosure. The Democrats, who have been pushing the “Trump is a pedophile” storyline onerous, so far have come out badly as data has dripped out. Former Harvard Professor Larry Summers stepped away from public life Monday night after it was revealed he had carried on a years-long friendship with the convicted pedophile, even after the late financier’s proclivities had change into public. Meanwhile, news broke that Democrat Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands appeared to be texting Epstein during a 2019 congressional listening to.
The measure now heads to the Senate. There was a lot of back-and-forth and drama in D.C. main up to the vote:
Over the weekend, after it was clear many Republicans would vote for the measure, Trump abruptly reversed himself to say he supported it, writing on Truth social that “it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics.”
And while Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) ended up voting for the measure as a manner to show help for “maximum transparency,” he expressed reservations about the invoice’s handling of delicate data about victims and urged the Senate to amend the laws. Democrats, Johnson argued, had been “forcing a political show vote on the Epstein files.”
Republicans have long been asking, “If there is so much important information in the Epstein files, why weren’t they released when Biden was president?” It’s a good query, one we might finally be getting an reply to.
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie (Okay-04), one of the sponsors of the invoice, celebrated on X:
My laws with @RepRoKhanna to release the Epstein recordsdata just handed 427 to 1 !
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