Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told the Wall Street Journal that she is “shocked” that Republican leadership in the House of Representatives is blocking the release of Jeffrey Epstein files, which has been a Republican/Trump promise since 2019:
We campaigned on transparency issues like ‘release the Epstein files. And all of a sudden there’s this hard stance coming from the Republican leadership and many of the members and the administration, and I’m shocked by it. I think it’s a major misstep. It is an uncalculated error that is going to have ramifications directly in the midterms.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) recently claimed — without any evidence — that President Donald Trump was an “FBI informant” who was supposedly gathering information on Epstein, years ago. Meanwhile, the Trump White House has been issuing ominous warnings to lawmakers for supporting efforts to release Epstein files.
Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) destroyed Speaker Johnson’s “informant” claim and demanded the files be released on Twitter/X:
Ok. I’ve had enough.
— Denver Lee Riggleman III (@Denver4VA) September 5, 2025
RELEASE THE SIGNED EPSTEIN FBI INFORMANT AND WITNESS DOCUMENTS.
If our POTUS was an FBI informant or witness, then why did he call for the release of the Epstein list and run his campaign on it… and then block it? Wouldn’t he know the contents and those… https://t.co/jBo8DJOogV
(Sources: Wall Street Journal, Twitter/X, Twitter/X)