Republican Rep. Nancy Mace claimed Democrats released Epstein files mentioning President Donald Trump by name to “bury headlines on their vote against reopening the government.”
How pathetic that Democrats are using Epstein’s victims to bury headlines on their vote against reopening the government.
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) November 12, 2025
She is among several Republicans criticizing Democrats for their move. Elsewhere, House Republicans in the Oversight Committee said “Democrats whine about “releasing the files,” but they only cherry-pick when they have them to generate clickbait.”
The Republicans said they released an additional 20,000 pages of the Epstein files and posted them on their website.
The files released by Democrats on the same committee released three emails from a tranche of more than 23,000 documents subpoenaed from the Epstein Estate.
They include a 2011 message in which Epstein told his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell that a victim had “spent hours at my house” with Trump, describing him as “the dog that hasn’t barked.” Maxwell responded: “I have been thinking about that …” The names of alleged victims were redacted.
The emails were made public as the committee continues to review the broader set of documents, most of which have not yet been released.
In a separate exchange from December 2015, author Michael Wolff told Epstein he heard CNN might question Trump about his relationship with him. Epstein replied: “If we were to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?” Wolff said Trump should answer publicly and risk “hanging himself,” noting it could create “PR and political currency” for Epstein.
Another email from January 2019 shows Epstein appeared to dispute reports that Trump had barred him from Mar-a-Lago, writing: “Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. Of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.” The full context of the exchange is unclear.
None of the newly released documents contain allegations of criminal conduct by Trump. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Democrats issued a formal statement describing the material as evidence that Trump has attempted to “cover up the Epstein files.” Rep. Robert Garcia, ranking member on the committee, said the new documents “raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the President.”
Originally published on Latin Times
