A group of House Democrats is demanding answers from the Justice Department over their recent proclamation that the fabled Jeffrey Epstein "client list" doesn't exist, reported The Guardian — accusing them of burying information about the case to protect President Donald Trump.
"The House Judiciary Committee’s ranking member, Jamie Raskin, together with 15 other Democrats sent a six-page letter to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, accusing her of withholding some Epstein files to protect the president from any damaging disclosures," said the report.
"This Administration has repeatedly claimed that President Trump is 'the most transparent and accessible president in American history,'" said the letter. "So far, your DOJ has not only failed to live up to this promise, but you have also consistently hidden from the American public materials and information that may be damaging to President Trump. Earlier last month, Elon Musk, the former senior advisor to President Trump and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, posted on his social media website, X, that President Trump 'is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.'"
The letter also demanded that Bondi release information about the now-aborted classified document theft case prosecuted against Trump by special counsel Jack Smith, telling Bondi to "stop protecting your boss."
Epstein, a wealth manager of powerful and famous people, was arrested in 2019 after a yearslong child sex trafficking operation. He was found dead of suicide in his cell in Manhattan before he could be brought to trial, which has spawned extensive conspiracy theories that he was assassinated to conceal a supposed list of powerful and famous people in on the scheme.
There remains no evidence such a list is real, or that Trump or other powerful figures were part of his sex trafficking; however, Trump and Epstein were widely known to have had a friendship decades ago that later fell apart, which has led to endless speculation about how deep it went.
Musk's accusation of Trump as being involved with the Epstein case came as the tech billionaire had a broader falling out with the president.
