“Put everything on the table”
Republicans increases pressure on Trump in Epstein affair
07/16/2025 – 00:43 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
US President Donald Trump is still under pressure from his own supporters. Now a prominent republican is calling for the publication of the Epstein file.
In the affair about the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, US President Donald Trump is still under pressure with his own supporters. The chairman of Trump’s republicans in the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, called on Tuesday to publish the Epstein file. He was for “transparency,” said Johnson in an interview with the conservative podcaster Benny Johnson. “We have to put everything on the table and let people decide.”
Johnson also demands that Trump’s Minister of Justice Pam Bondi have to “explain” some disagreements in her statements about the Epstein affair. Trump demonstrated his fundamental willingness to transparency on Tuesday. If there are “credible” information in the case of the late US investor Epstein and his network for the sexual exploitation of women, the president said to journalists. The decision of the Minister of Justice is responsible for the decision.
At a press conference, this did not want to comment on the opportunity to publish new elements in the matter. “Our memorandum speaks for itself,” she referred to an earlier explanation on Tuesday.
Many Trump supporters had recently said outraged because his government did not keep a promise to the Epstein scandal: she wanted to bring light to the scandal around the US billionaire, which was found dead in his prison cell in Manhattan in 2019. The investment banker had been accused of misused numerous girls and young women.
Trump’s Minister of Justice Bondi and the head of the Federal Police FBI, Kash Patel, had fueled speculation that there was a secret “customer list” of Epstein with prominent names from the Democratic Party or Hollywood. Some Trump supporters even spread the conspiracy count that Epstein was therefore eliminated by a “deep state”.
At the beginning of July, Bondi and Patel released a surprising memo: No “stressful ‘customer list'” was found – and, as previously assumed, Epstein committed suicide prison. There is no further information in this case. The reaction in the Maga camp (Make America Great Again, makes America great again) was violent.
Because of earlier statements about Epstein, Trump is also the focus of the affair. In 2002 he had still called his neighbor Epstein as “great guys” and said that he might be “beautiful women as well as me” – and many of them were rather young.
Trump’s name had also appeared in later approved documents for the Epstein affair, but the incidental president was not accused of misconduct. Some in the Maga camp therefore suspected that Trump himself is on the alleged “customer list” and therefore wanted to cover up the matter.
On Saturday, Trump reacted angrily to the allegations of his Maga camp. “We are in a team, Maga, and I don’t like what happens,” he said on Truth Social. Unlike usual, Trump received mostly critical reactions in his online network.
