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Republican Representative Tim Burchett from Tennessee’s 18th district recently challenged Democrats who are now advocating for transparency in the case of Jeffrey Epstein’s files. However, their efforts to leverage this issue against former President Donald Trump appear to have fallen flat.
The strategy behind the Democrats’ push was largely perceived as an attempt to undermine Trump. As reported by Jennifer Van Laar, Managing Editor at RedState, Democrats believed they had cornered Trump after the release of 20,000 documents from Epstein’s estate. They zeroed in on a few specific emails, interpreting them as potentially damaging to Trump.
However, this tactic backfired dramatically when it was revealed that the emails in question had redacted references to Virginia Giuffre, who is a key figure in the case. Giuffre had previously testified that Trump had never behaved inappropriately towards her and that she never witnessed him in Epstein’s company.
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Instead, it blew up spectacularly when it was discovered that the emails had redacted any mention of the “victim” in the case, who happened to be Virginia Giuffre. That move was intentional. Giuffre had stated under oath that Trump never acted inappropriately with her and that she never saw him with Epstein.
These Epstein/Maxwell emails reference Virginia Giuffre.
Giuffre’s testimony contradicts them:
She never saw Trump and Epstein together.
Trump never acted inappropriately towards her (no sex and no flirting).
She was never at Epstein’s house with Trump. pic.twitter.com/zOQRQHep7r
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) November 12, 2025
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Not to mention, one of the emails literally states that Trump demanded Ghislaine Maxwell to “stop” what they were doing regarding “the girls.”
“Democrats and their lackeys in the media are painting these emails as ‘bombshell’ revelations,” Van Laar writes, “but all they reveal is how desperate the Democrats are and again demonstrate how low they’ll go.”
It took less than a 24-hour news cycle for the Democrats’ big bombshell to fall through. It’d be hilarious if it weren’t so sad.
That said, Burchett, emboldened by his colleagues across the aisle’s newfound interest in the Epstein files, decided to allow them the opportunity to put their money where their mouth is. He went to the House floor and requested unanimous consent (UC) — a procedural move that would have fast-tracked the release of all remaining Jeffrey Epstein files.
Democrats, instead, shriveled up faster than George Costanza after a swim in the pool.
I tried to release The Epstein Files immediately and the Democrats blocked it. pic.twitter.com/wFywWzxixU
— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) November 12, 2025
Burchett said he requested the UC in an attempt to “cut out all this nonsense,” but the Democrats “blocked it, oddly enough.”
“They’ve had it for four years, and they—obviously if there was something there about Trump they would have released it,” Burchett explained. “And now they’re all, ‘Let’s get it out! Let’s get it out!’”
“Well, I just made a motion to bring it straight to the dadgum floor and they blocked it,” he added. “This is politics … They ought to be ashamed of themselves, but they’re probably not.”
I tried to release the Epstein files today. Democrats blocked it. pic.twitter.com/oKo8y9RR3b
— Rep. Tim Burchett Press Office (@RepTimBurchett) November 12, 2025
Rep. Burchett later explained to Newsmax that Democrats had informed the parliamentarian they would not agree to his UC request, effectively stopping the matter dead in its tracks.
“It was blocked. It was not unanimous,” he said. “So it’s going to go back through the normal process.”
As with all things involving the Democrat party, they are wholly uninterested in doing the right thing, uninterested in trying to get to the heart of the matter on the Epstein case, and uninterested in holding people accountable. They see everything through the prism of ‘Get Trump.’
And it fails every single time.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) called out the Democrats for their “hypocrisy” and scheduled a vote on a bill to release files related to Epstein next week.
Editor’s Note: After more than 40 days of screwing Americans, a few Dems have finally caved. The Schumer Shutdown was never about principle—just inflicting pain for political points.
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