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Hugo Lowell and Chris Stein in Washington

Top House Democrats demand release of Epstein files that mention Trump

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The US attorney general, Pam Bondi, listens as Donald Trump speaks to the media at the White House on 27 June 2025. Photograph: Ken Cedeno/Reuters

House Democrats on Tuesday demanded that the justice department release documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking case that mentions or references Donald Trump, citing a comment by Elon Musk after he fell out with the president this year.

The House judiciary committee’s ranking member, Jamie Raskin, together with 15 other Democrats sent a six-page letter to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, accusing her of withholding some Epstein files to protect the president from any damaging disclosures.

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