{"id":11618,"date":"2025-07-23T21:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-lawmakers-shrug-off-a-new-report-that-trumps-name-was-in-the-epstein-files\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T21:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:01:55","slug":"gop-lawmakers-shrug-off-a-new-report-that-trumps-name-was-in-the-epstein-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-lawmakers-shrug-off-a-new-report-that-trumps-name-was-in-the-epstein-files\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP lawmakers shrug off a new report that Trump’s name was in the Epstein files"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Republicans largely shrugged off a new report<\/u><\/a> that President Donald Trump\u2019s name was in the Epstein files. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe were with him last night. He’s fine. He’s gonna release everything,\u201d said Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), who\u2019s been pushing for a vote on a non-binding GOP resolution calling for the release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased financier and former sex offender with ties to Trump and other prominent figures.<\/p>\n

Trump is \u201cgoing to release everything,\u201d Norman said, and if Trump\u2019s name was in the files, \u201cit\u2019ll come out.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who\u2019s leading an effort to circumvent leadership to force a vote on releasing the files, told reporters: \u201cthere are probably lots of names in there who haven’t done anything criminal, and so there’s a reluctance to release these files because of the embarrassment just having your name in the news and these files.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier Wednesday<\/u><\/a> that the Justice Department told Trump in May his name was among the files along with other high-profile people.<\/p>\n

Controversy around the files scrambled the House\u2019s schedule this week after Democrats tried to force a vote in the Rules Committee Monday. GOP leaders aren\u2019t planning to allow any votes on Epstein-related matters until after the House returns from its August recess, and the Trump administration has moved to release grand jury information from the case.<\/p>\n

Other Republicans insisted it was already widely known that Trump was likely to be named in the Epstein files.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe said that, and Trump knows it,\u201d said Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.). \u201cWe’ve said that all along. He’s in the plane files. President Trump rode with the guy. He banned him from Mar-a-Lago 15 years ago. He’s said he was a dirtbag and he knows it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Katherine Tully-McManus contributed to this report<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Republicans largely shrugged off a new report that President Donald Trump\u2019s name was in the Epstein files. \u201cWe were with him last night. He’s fine. He’s gonna release everything,\u201d said Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), who\u2019s been pushing for a vote on a non-binding GOP resolution calling for the release of documents related to Jeffrey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}