'Gonna get his wish': Top Dem warns Trump to get 'wonderful secrets' spilled
U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One to depart for Florida, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., July 1, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
July 17, 2025
A top House Democrat warned President Donald Trump on Thursday night that he is about to get exactly what he wished for after a bombshell report detailed a salacious letter he wrote to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump has denied writing the risque letter and threatened to sue the Journal, News Corp, and Rupert Murdoch.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, flagged for MSNBC viewers late Thursday that Trump’s closing statement in the letter may be the "most pertinent to our situation here, where he said something to the effect of, 'May every day offer another wonderful secret.'"
"And I think he’s going to get his wish on that, because I think every day another wonderful secret about the relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is going to be leaking out, because so many people knew about it," warned Raskin.
Raskin declared that it's "obvious" the public needs "total disclosure of the complete file, redacting only the names and the identities of the minor victims of the sex abuse—victims of Jeffrey Epstein and of the sex ring."
He said Trump and Republicans can read the writing on the wall.
"There is overwhelming bipartisan popular demand, congressional demand, to release all of this stuff. And they keep slicing the baloney very fine every time they come back with another offer," he said.
When asked about Attorney General Pam Bondi's announcement that she's "ready" to ask the courts to release all grand jury testimony, Raskin noted they weren't asking for that testimony.
"We’re asking for all of the files the Department of Justice has," he insisted. "In other words, we’re asking for exactly what Donald Trump was demanding and exactly what Pam Bondi was demanding before they got into power and got to look at everything. And now they’re looking for reasons to make very careful deletions and excisions from the record."
"We want to be able to see it all to get to the bottom of this," he added.
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