S.E. Cupp: Donald Trump’s Epstein mess keeps getting worse
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By S.E.
Cupp | secuppdailynews@gmail.com | New York Daily News
PUBLISHED: November 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM EST
First, he said
the late sex-trafficking pervert Jeffrey Epstein was “terrific.” Then he
“wasn’t a fan of his.”
First, he wanted
a “full investigation.” Then it was nothing more than a “hoax” and a “scam.”
Donald Trump’s 180-degree turn on
Epstein over the years has been a saga of self-preservation, useful
distraction, and false appeasement as the base he conditioned to Demand Answers
has refused to let it go.
Now, with the
government reopened and Congress back to work, the rubber finally meets the
road.
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A group of
Republican House members, led by Rep. Thomas Massie, is following through with
promises to vote to bring legislation to the floor that would compel the
Justice Department to release all of its Epstein files, which Attorney General
Pam Bondi has thus far refused to do — presumably at the request of Trump
himself.
Massie’s got some help, and from some
of Trump’s most loyal adherents. Reps. Lauren Boebert, Nancy Mace and Marjorie
Taylor Greene, have all said they’ll vote to release. And they’re not hiding from
their decisions.
“I honestly
believe it’s not only the right thing to do for the victims but it’s also the
right thing to do for the country,” Greene said on Wednesday. “Americans
deserve transparency.”
Said Mace: “I
stand with all survivors….The Epstein vote will be for you too.”
The vote takes
place next week, but it’s not a fait accompli that we’ll all finally get to see
whatever’s in those files — from a potentially damning client list to details
about his prison suicide. After the House votes, it will need the Senate to
vote to release, and then the president — the one who’s now calling the
investigation a hoax — would have to sign it into law.
Massie has some
very important advice and strong words for Republicans who are contemplating
voting Trump’s way to keep the files suppressed.
“I would remind
my colleagues that this vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump
is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you’re
in a debate either with a Republican or a Democrat and they say, ‘How can we
trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.’ ”
Republicans are
going to have to answer for countless acts of cowardice, from acquitting Trump
of impeachable offenses to defending Jan. 6. History, I have faith, will judge
them correctly and harshly.
But this may be
the most perilous of all. Who wants to spend the rest of their careers having
to explain why they fought so hard to protect a convicted pedophile and all of
his accomplices just because their favorite president — a criminal himself —
may have been implicated in the process?
Massie thinks plenty of others will
see the stakes in a similar way. According to Politico,
“Senior Republicans privately believe dozens of Republicans will vote for it,
possibly 100 or more.”
The latest batch of Epstein emails,
unexpectedly released by House Democrats and Republicans this week, will
undoubtedly give them an extra push if they need one. In them, Epstein boasts that he
knew how “dirty Donald” was, and describes one woman as his “20-year-old
girlfriend in 93, that after two years i gave to donald.” He also says Trump
“spent hours at my house” with someone simply referred to in the redacted
documents as “Victim,” and that “Of course [Trump] knew about the girls.”
Trump has responded predictably,
with projection and veiled threats.
“The Democrats
are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do
anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown, and so
many other subjects. Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into
that trap,” he wrote on Truth Social.
He’s also been
calling Republican lawmakers like Boebert to try to pressure them not to vote
to release.
If it were just a
meaningless hoax, Trump wouldn’t care if the files were released. He wouldn’t
have spent years stoking dark conspiracy theories about the files, only to
suddenly conclude there was nothing in them. He wouldn’t have switched from
backing a “full investigation” to impeding one. He wouldn’t have had Epstein’s
convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell moved to a lower-security prison after
“testifying” to one of Trump’s favorite lawyers that Trump did nothing wrong.
He wouldn’t need to call lawmakers to change their votes. He wouldn’t need to
fire off threatening social media posts.
And now it feels
like the walls are closing in. It’s not just Democrats pushing for
transparency, but Republicans, too. And his MAGA base is in fact demanding it.
How much longer can Teflon Don withstand the calls coming from inside the
house?
