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‘Full of s—t’: Why Jasmine Crockett and others aren’t buying Trump and Republicans’ change of heart on Epstein files

Though the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on Tuesday to compel the full release of FBI files related to the criminal investigation of sex trafficking pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, members of Congress like U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett remain highly skeptical of President Donald Trump and Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson’s reversals on supporting the resolution’s passage. “They’re full of it,” Crockett said of Republicans after President Trump called on House Republicans to vote for the release of the Epstein files […]

November 22, 2025

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Trump signs bill to release Jeffrey Epstein case files after fighting it for months

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday that compels his administration to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, bowing to political pressure from his own party after initially resisting those efforts. Trump could have chosen to release many of the files on his own months ago. “Democrats have used the ‘Epstein’ issue, which affects them far more than the Republican Party, in order to try and distract from our AMAZING Victories,” Trump said in a social media post […]

November 19, 2025

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Black Caucus members call out Trump after Congress votes to release Epstein files

The U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted on Tuesday to release the FBI files related to sex trafficking pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. As the Epstein Files Transparency Act makes its way to President Donald Trump‘s desk for signature, Democrats are pointing at the Trump administration, which they say is slow walking transparency amid heightened attention on Trump’s relationship with Epstein. “Let’s not forget: The Department of Justice is already compelled to release the Epstein files to the Oversight […]

November 19, 2025

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Trump backs release of Epstein files as GOP tensions rise

President Donald Trump said House Republicans should vote to release the files in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a startling reversal after previously fighting the proposal as a growing number of those in his own party supported it. “We have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party,” Trump wrote on social media late Sunday after landing at Joint […]

November 17, 2025

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Innocent Black Man Ambushed By Police Files Lawsuit After Video Proves His Innocence

Nationwide — Jeffrey Sutton, an African American man from Bloomfield, New Jersey, is suing his local police department after being shot multiple times during a 2020 arrest attempt. He says officers lied about the incident, claiming he tried to run them over, though the video later showed otherwise. In November 2020, Sutton was driving his Mercedes-Benz through downtown Bloomfield when unmarked police cars suddenly boxed him in. The officers, dressed in plain clothes, were responding to an alert labeling his […]

October 22, 2025

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Senate Republicans defeat Democrats’ effort to force the release of Epstein files

In a close vote, Senate Republicans defeated an effort Wednesday by Democrats to insert language into Congress’ annual defense authorization bill that would have forced the public release of case files on the sex trafficking investigation into the late Jeffrey Epstein. The Senate voted 51-49 to dismiss the changes to the bill, with Republican Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Rand Paul of Kentucky joining with all Democrats in opposition. For months, Democrats have clamored for the release of what’s become […]

September 12, 2025

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Jeffries, Dems zero in on GOP over Epstein files and Trump flip‑flop: ‘What are they hiding?’

“Sordid… Scandalous. Corrupt.” House of Representatives Democratic Leader U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is on the offensive over the Epstein files. After President Donald Trump and Republicans did a rhetorical about-face on releasing the files, many of their right-leaning supporters are angry—and it’s created an opening for Democrats to slam GOP leaders and share their message. “I support transparency,” Jeffries said at a recent press conference. “The far right, Donald Trump, right-wing conspiracy theorists, and others are the ones who […]

July 28, 2025

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Ayanna Pressley says Trump release of MLK files reflects more sinister attack on Black leadership and history

The Trump administration’s release of the MLK files is being met with skepticism from the family of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., advocates, and Democratic elected officials, including U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, who told theGrio she believes the abrupt release is part of a more sinister tactic rooted in anti-Blackness. Martin Luther King III and Bernice King, the last surviving children of MLK, cautioned in a lengthy joint statement that, considering the FBI’s racist and illegal surveillance and […]

July 22, 2025

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Crockett calls for Trump AG Pam Bondi to testify before Congress over non-release of Epstein files

The political campaign to pressure the Trump administration to release the full findings of the federal investigation of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein continues as Democrats uniformly call for President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to be transparent with the American public due to widespread interest, particularly Trump’s MAGA base of supporters. Amid the Trump administration’s inconsistent statements and insistence that there is nothing of value to release publicly, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, is calling for Bondi […]

July 17, 2025