This seems to be the only winning issue for Democrats.

So it would actually be beneficial for Republicans to completely release everything.

Massie isn't alone.

House Oversight Democrat Rep. Stansbury exited a closed-door deposition involving Ghislaine Maxwell, issuing explosive accusations about a wider cover-up tied to the Epstein case.

"There are more than three dozen individuals directly associated with Donald Trump named in those files."

"The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States and Donald Trump is right at the center of it."

"Nothing stops one of them from lying on the Floor."

Nothing stops Trump from lying either.

I believe the one who isn't a convicted felon.
You believe the one who is a convicted felon.

February 9, 2026
Rep. Jamie Raskin News Conference on Epstein Files
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, spoke to reporters after his own review of unredacted files held by the Justice Department related to its investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. He accused the Justice Department of making numerous "completely unnecessary" redactions that he said appeared to protect President Trump and former Victoria's Secret CEO Les Wexner, among others, and questioned whether the Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law in late 2025, was being fully followed by the Trump administration

"We need to be investigating the money. We need to be investigating the organizational hierarchy. There's no way you run a billion dollars international child trafficking ring with just two people committing crimes, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. No way. It doesn't work like that. So we need to figure out what other conspiracies were involved, what Our co-conspirators were involved, and I really do believe that listening to the survivors is going to be our pathway through this nightmare."

"Well, remember what Congress called for was a complete release of the files and just the redaction of the names of the victims. Now, unfortunately, the names of the victims were not redacted relating to more than 100 women in the case, so that is baffling and staggering that that would happen. But then there are Thousands and thousands of pages replete with redactions. There are entire pages and memos where you can't see anything. It's all blacked out and there are no names of victims in there. So it's just a very puzzling thing and the Department of Justice needs to explain it. The whole country should be able to read what this federal law compelled them to produce."