Democrats controlled the White House and both houses of Congress for two years under Joe Biden, yet the Epstein files remained sealed. Now that they’ve tried weaponizing selective emails against Trump, the question becomes unavoidable: if they were really about transparency, where was their urgency when they had the power to release everything?
We all know the answer.
For four years under Biden’s administration, Democrats didn’t lift a finger to make the Epstein files public. The Biden Justice Department sat on tens of thousands of pages of documents, and no Democrat-led initiative pushed for their release. Heck, that’s why President Trump ran on the promise that he would release them. Now, there’s no use in denying that Trump hasn’t handled the issue perfectly. He’s overpromised and undelivered at this point, and he’s handed Democrats their current talking point. Still, it doesn’t change the fact that Democrats clearly never wanted transparency, and only claim to want transparency when they think they've found a political weapon against Trump.
The most blatant attempt came last week, when Democrats on the House Oversight Committee leaked three cherry-picked and doctored emails out of 23,000 mentioning Trump, hoping to damage him in the court of public opinion. When House Republicans responded by releasing the entire tranche, the damaging revelations pointed directly back at Democrats, which explains why Democrats blocked the full file release just days earlier.
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The emails revealed uncomfortable truths about Democrat connections to Epstein that explain the four-year cover-up. Kathryn Ruemmler, who served as White House counsel under Barack Obama, exchanged messages with Epstein, calling Trump “so gross,” and she sought Epstein’s guidance on how to get Obama to nominate her for U.S. attorney general. Del. Stacey Plaskett from the U.S. Virgin Islands was texting with Epstein during Michael Cohen’s 2019 congressional testimony, with messages appearing to show Epstein offering her advice.
Far from revealing a Trump-Epstein friendship, the messages showed Epstein’s disdain for Trump, completely undermining the narrative Democrats were pushing that Trump and Epstein were pals.
When Trump posted on Truth Social Sunday night, calling for House Republicans to vote for release because “we have nothing to hide,” it exposed the Democrats’ selective transparency. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) predicted “100 or more” Republicans would support the measure, while Democrats suddenly found themselves cornered by their own stunt. What are Democrats going to do? They had no desire for transparency under Joe Biden, and the only damaging information in the emails that were released last week was about Democrats. What are they going to do?
If Democrats genuinely cared about transparency and justice for Epstein’s victims, they had four years with Biden in the White House and two years controlling Congress to release everything. Instead, they kept the files sealed until they believed selective leaks could damage Trump politically. Now that Trump has called for full release and the actual emails show Democrats’ connections to Epstein, along with his hatred of Trump, their silence during the Biden years speaks volumes.
