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House Democrats are making increasingly clear they have no plans to abandon their line of inquiry into whether President Donald Trump was involved in Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s sex trafficking ring, should they retake the majority in the midterms.<\/p>\n

A new report<\/a> from the minority staff for the House Judiciary Committee, released Monday, calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump\u2019s ties to the late convicted sex offender, alleging he was \u201can active participant in Jeffery Epstein\u2019s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Congress does not have the power to appoint a special counsel, the report also makes the case for increased federal support to assist with state and foreign prosecutions of Epstein\u2019s co-conspirators, along with further congressional action to uncover Epstein\u2019s expansive sex trafficking scheme \u2014 both actions lawmakers could undertake through legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe women who survived Epstein deserve to be heard, Congress must have the complete files required by law, and an independent special counsel must investigate Epstein\u2019s co-conspirators and DOJ\u2019s cover-up and ensure that state and foreign prosecutors have the evidence they need to pursue justice,\u201d Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the panel\u2019s top Democrat said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Trump has denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein\u2019s actions and has repeatedly said he and Epstein had a falling out years ago and that he banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago \u201cfor being a creep.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Democrats think the House Republican-led Epstein investigation has allowed accusations against Trump to go unchecked. They also want to put more pressure on the Justice Department to account for the agency\u2019s slow-walking and haphazard release of all the Epstein files, despite the law Congress passed last year compelling all the materials be made available.<\/p>\n

Their new report, titled \u201cThe Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ\u2019s Desperate Efforts to Cover It Up,\u201d lists five women who have accused Trump \u201cof raping or sexually assaulting them\u201d in the company of Epstein.<\/p>\n

Lauren Bis, a White House spokesperson, said in a statement that Trump has been “totally exonerated on anything related to Epstein,” adding that the president “has done more for Epstein’s victims than anyone before him” by “releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request, signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and calling for more investigations into Epstein’s Democrat friends.”<\/p>\n

As spokesperson for House Judiciary Republicans did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Democrats are making increasingly clear they have no plans to abandon their line of inquiry into whether President Donald Trump was involved in Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s sex trafficking ring, should they retake the majority in the midterms. A new report from the minority staff for the House Judiciary Committee, released Monday, calls for a special […]<\/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-27624","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\/27624","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=27624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}