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Johnson breaks with Trump, calls for DOJ to release Epstein files
Politico ^ | 07/15/2025, 4:39pm ET | Cheyanne M. Daniels

Posted on 07/15/2025 4:58:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Speaker Mike Johnson is calling for the Department of Justice to release all of its information on Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in jail after being charged with sex trafficking, and wants Attorney General Pam Bondi to explain previous statements on the matter.

The Trump administration this month declined to release additional information regarding Epstein’s death, with the Justice Department and FBI concluding there’s no evidence that Epstein had a list of clients or was murdered in his jail cell. Republicans blocked a House vote on Tuesday afternoon that Democrats tried to cast as a referendum to force the White House to release the files.

In an interview published shortly after the vote, Johnson told conservative commentator Benny Johnson that he is “for transparency.”

“It’s a very delicate subject, but you should put everything out there, let the people decide it,” the Louisiana Republican said.

He added that Bondi needs to clarify previous remarks she made about having some sort of “client list” of Epstein’s — pivoting from Monday when he threw his support behind the attorney general.

“I think she was talking about documents, as I understood that were on her desk. I don’t know that she was specific about a list or whatever, but she needs to come forward and explain that to everybody,” Johnson said.

The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In February, Bondi told Fox News that files related to the Epstein investigation — including a document suspected to include high-profile names associated with his sex crimes — was “sitting on my desk right now.”

But in a Cabinet meeting earlier this month, Bondi denied saying she had a client list.

“My response was, it’s sitting on my desk to be reviewed. Meaning the file, along with the JFK...,”

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1 posted on 07/15/2025 4:58:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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2 posted on 07/15/2025 5:00:45 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Someone posted on another thread that the corrupt politicians and intelligence bosses would destroy all the files harming themselves and leave preserved the files that endanger their enemies.


3 posted on 07/15/2025 5:01:26 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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..... At least Now we know what the upcoming Mid Term Elections are going to be about.

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4 posted on 07/15/2025 5:03:25 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ben Menashe worked for Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate from 1977 to 1987.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12926465/jeffrey-epstein-list-friendship-israeli-prime-minister-ehud-barak.html

Epstein was introduced to the spy game by Ghislaine’s father Robert, according to Mossad agent Ben-Menashe who claims to have been the British media tycoon’s ‘handler.’


5 posted on 07/15/2025 5:05:43 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Diogenesis

If Marxist Kahanah wants it released, than the files are doctored.


6 posted on 07/15/2025 5:06:48 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO ODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: R_Kangel

Lol, Democrats trumpet a list that’s mostly about them. Meanwhile, the GOP runs ads of every discisting leftist thing they have said this year.


7 posted on 07/15/2025 5:08:06 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO ODS BEFORE HIM!)
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8 posted on 07/15/2025 5:13:38 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Trump failures: leaving Antifa off Terror list,Market chaos, Bondi. )
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To: cowboyusa

She is just grandstanding.

I don’t think anybody in Congress has a clue even whether there is a list or what is in the files—real, fake or some combination of both.

Despite what some may claim this is an issue that the public cares about—and any member of Congress will find it difficult to resist trying to virtue signal in front of cameras.


9 posted on 07/15/2025 5:17:03 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: frank ballenger

Someone posted on another thread that the corrupt politicians and intelligence bosses would destroy all the files harming themselves and leave preserved the files that endanger their enemies.

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That tracks with Demoncrat M.O.

Shoebox mine .

Dems introducing an

” Epstein transparency” bill.

Ambush.

People just couldn’t wait to hang the pedos, threw a fit to rush it, and here we are getting our feet blown off.

Pedos walk and we lose the house.

Terrific.

Smdh.


10 posted on 07/15/2025 5:18:28 PM PDT by cuz1961 ( )
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To: cuz1961

Right, FOCCUS.


11 posted on 07/15/2025 5:21:48 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO ODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump/Johnson 2028?

That’s Lara Trump on top of the ticket.

Sure, I’m jesting, but when it comes to MAGA both have indicated in the last 48 hours they get MAGA more than the guy who created it.


12 posted on 07/15/2025 5:22:53 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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People just couldn’t wait to hang the pedos, threw a fit to rush it,

and why ?

cuz the rage wasn’t as much over abused children as much as it was the Israel / jew hate “ he must be mossad agent” angle driving them.

Thanks Tucker

Thanks Bannon

Preterism damages everything .


13 posted on 07/15/2025 5:23:52 PM PDT by cuz1961 ( )
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To: Biblebelter

President Trump didn’t create it, he BLED FOR IT. And Vance will take it to the next level.


14 posted on 07/15/2025 5:26:37 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO ODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Polutico, there you go again.

Nobody is breaking with CIC Trump. Nobody.

What is scripted is various discrepancies, like one playing good cop the other bad cop. Similar with Musk, perhaps Bondi, and many others by degrees.

The purpose is draining the swamp, and restoring the Republic. All legal, all choreographed.

Pass the popcorn. Make mine well-buttered, please.


15 posted on 07/15/2025 5:26:51 PM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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16 posted on 07/15/2025 5:29:50 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Trump failures: leaving Antifa off Terror list,Market chaos, Bondi. )
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To: C210N

I pray you are right.

It’s a comforting idea , thank you for the encouragement.

Doesn’t change my support for Trump either.

Or bongino , or kash, or bondi.


17 posted on 07/15/2025 5:34:33 PM PDT by cuz1961 ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Don’t tell many of these Mega folks on FR, they will gnash teeth, rip their cloths off and cover themselves in ash...


18 posted on 07/15/2025 5:34:44 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: cowboyusa

Vance?

I’ve heard of that guy.

He used Nazi references to describe his feelings toward Trump to a close friend in private.

My first impression of Trump?

This guy is the genuine article.

Vance is just your typical ambitious senator who has checked all the boxes Republican candidates who were also senators checked to get the nomination.

He is just the evolution of Juan McCain and Pierre Delecto.


19 posted on 07/15/2025 5:37:19 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: cuz1961

I know Kash does not like me for sure.

https://x.com/Kash_Patel/status/1944101148903760317

Of course the good news is that I am the only conspiracy theorist in the MAGA movement.

Lol.


20 posted on 07/15/2025 5:38:49 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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