A rare bipartisan coalition has emerged in Congress demanding full transparency regarding Jeffrey Epstein files, with lawmakers from both parties joining forces to compel the Trump administration to release all federal documents related to the convicted sex trafficker. 

The bipartisan push, led by Republican Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Democratic Representative Ro Khanna of California, has garnered support from an unlikely alliance of progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans who argue that transparency transcends partisan politics when it comes to justice for sex trafficking victims.

After President Donald Trump called focus on the Epstein files a “Democrat hoax,” Marjorie Taylor Greene came out with Epstein victims to refute the claim. 

“It’s not a hoax, because Jeffrey Epstein is a convicted pedophile, Greene said. “That takes away the whole hoax things. It’s not a hoax. It’s not a lie.” 

Greene called on fellow Republicans to join Massie, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert to sign the discharge petition. 

“Every Republican should be able to sign on to this, and that’s the real hoax, that they’re afraid to sign on to it. Because somebody who, you know, who is a real coward from one of the Trump admin officials, came out and called this a hostile act against the Trump administration,” Greene said. “I take very big offense to that, because I put my life and my fortune on the line fighting to get that man elected.” 

Green said she’s received a lot of pushback from Republicans as she’s become more vocal in her call to release the Epstein files. 

“Oh, I got a lot of pushback. I got phone call after phone call last night. They didn’t want me to sign the discharge petition. They want to focus on the Oversight [Committee] investigation. They hate Thomas Massie more than they can hate any Democrat, which makes no sense to me. And they don’t want to work with Democrats at all,” Greene said during her Wednesday appearance on Real America’s Voice “Bolling!” 

This did not keep Greene from standing beside nine Epstein survivors as they shared their stories Wednesday. 

Victims have suggested they would put together a list of Epstein associates themselves while some said they still fear the repercussions of naming names. Greene said she could handle that for them. 

“It’s a scary thing to name names. But I will tell you, I’m not afraid to name names,” Greene said. “If they want to give me a list, I will walk in that Capitol on the House floor and I’ll say every damn name that abused these women. I can do that for them and I’d be proud to do it.”

While Epstein’s victims spoke at the US Capitol, Anouska De Georgiou was interrupted by four fighter jets mid-sentence while speaking about Ghislaine Maxwell being moved to a lower-security prison. The White House stated the flyover was to honor a fallen Polish army pilot who died in a recent training exercise and to “celebrate the special relationship between our two nations” as Trump was hosting Polish President Karol Nawrocki at the White House.

During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump had pledged to release additional documents from the federal Epstein investigation if he secured a second term. However, since taking office, his administration has significantly shifted its stance. Speaking from the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump dismissed the push for transparency as “a Democrat hoax that never ends,” comparing it to controversies surrounding the Kennedy assassination files.

“From what I understand, thousands of pages of documents have been given,” Trump told reporters. “But it’s really a Democrat hoax because they’re trying to get people to talk about something that’s totally irrelevant to the success that we’ve had as a nation since I’ve been president.” 

Jena-Lisa Jones, who was abused by Epstein in 2003 when she was 14 years old, expressed her disappointment with Trump.

“I’m a Republican. I voted for him. I voted for Trump,” Jena-Lisa Jones, who was abused by Epstein in 2003 when she was just 14 years old, said on MSNBC Wednesday evening. “For him to say what he’s saying is beyond me. Because I put my hope in him, and he’s supposed to protect us. And for him to say that this is a joke, and that it’s sides? This is not sides. We will say it time and time again: None of us are up there accusing him of anything. There is no one that is accusing him of any wrongdoing, so for the fact that he is saying those things and saying it’s a hoax, who are you hiding for then? Because if it’s not you, then who is it?”

Following closed-door meetings with Epstein victims, Democratic Representative Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico accused the government of orchestrating “a cover up of epic proportions.” 

In her statement, Stansbury declared: “What we heard today is a cover up, and it is a cover up of epic proportions, a cover up involving the United States government, the justice system, rich and powerful individuals, a cover up, potentially involving foreign countries and foreign actors and yes, here today in this house, as our colleagues are up in the house, chamber, in The Rules Committee, a cover up by the Republicans in this chamber, because, as you will find out in the coming days and weeks, this goes all the way to the top.”

“There has been a systemic failure of the justice system for decades, a systemic failure to hold people who are powerful and have money to account, and that has allowed not just hundreds, but potentially 1000s of women, not only in the United States but around the world, to be bought, sold and trafficked for sex.”

The Department of Justice told Trump in March that his name appears in the Epstein files. 

On Wednesday,  Anushka DiGiorgio said, “My first trip to the Palm Beach residence, I drove there from the airport with Ghilsaine Maxwell and they, Jeffrey and Ghilsaine, were always very boastful about their friends, their famous or powerful friends. And his biggest brag forever was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump. He had an eight by 10 framed picture of him on his desk with the two of them, like they were very close.”

In an op-ed by Stacey Williams (The Guardian), she writes, “Last October, I came forward with a story I had kept private (with the exception of sharing with my closest friends) for decades: Epstein once walked me into Donald Trump’s office at Trump Tower, where I was groped by Trump as Epstein stood by and watched. (Trump denies that this ever happened). For years I stayed silent in order to protect my privacy and my family. But with the release of a documentary in which I was featured, I felt I had to tell the truth. To support my account, I was polygraphed by a renowned examiner, my close friends were interviewed to corroborate that I had shared this story over the years, and Trump biographer Michael Wolff confirmed that Epstein disclosed the incident to him.

More recently, I have also shared something Epstein once told me over tea and Zabar’s walnut bread at his mansion: that he had video of me disrobed in a bedroom in his home. He described it as “the most beautiful thing” he had seen. That comment chilled me then, and it haunts me still. When I watched FBI agents raid Epstein’s homes in 2019, I grew nauseous at the thought that such videos could have ended up in the hands of other people.

Let me be clear: I did not consent to being groped by Donald Trump, and I did not consent to being filmed by Jeffrey Epstein. I am speaking out not because of politics, but because the American people – and Epstein’s many victims – deserve transparency.”

Trump faces significant scrutiny regarding his own past conduct with women and minors as the Epstein files controversy unfolds. At least 26-28 women have publicly accused him of sexual misconduct spanning several decades, with a federal jury finding him liable for sexual abuse of E. Jean Carroll in 2023 and ordering $88.3 million in total damages across two related cases. Most notably for the current Epstein debate, Trump was sued in 2016 by an anonymous plaintiff who alleged he raped her when she was 13 years old at Jeffrey Epstein’s parties in 1994, though the case was voluntarily dismissed before trial. Additional allegations include multiple teenage Miss Teen USA contestants claiming Trump walked into their dressing rooms while they were changing or naked, behavior he reportedly bragged about on Howard Stern’s radio show. 

Haley Robson, who identified herself as a registered Republican, said Trump’s comments felt like “being gutted from the inside out.”

“Mr. President Donald J. Trump, I am a registered Republican — not that that matters because this is not political — however, I cordially invite you to meet me in the Capitol in person so you can understand this is not a hoax. We are real human beings. This is real trauma.”

The House Oversight Committee released 33,295 pages of Epstein-related documents on Tuesday, but critics from both parties characterized the release as inadequate. Democrats found that approximately 97% of the documents were already publicly available, with no mention of any client list or new transparency measures.

Massie dismissed the document release as representing roughly 1% of the total documents held by the Justice Department, saying “They’ve given us the sleeves off their vest.”

Massie said that he would join Greene in reading a list of Epstein associates under Congressional immunity. 

“They (the survivors) would be sued into homelessness for naming names, but [Georgia] Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and I are willing to name names in the House of Representatives under Constitutional ‘speech or debate’ immunity,” Massie wrote on X on Wednesday night.