An incendiary new 50-page report has dropped, per a report from MS NOW, making clear that President Donald Trump's least favorite issue is not going away and is primed to haunt him even more after the midterms.
On Monday morning, the House Judiciary Committee Democrats released an unsigned staff report detailing "the case against Donald Trump emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ’s desperate efforts to cover it up." As MS NOW noted, the content of the 50-page report contained little in the way of new evidence and repeated several "unsubstantiated" allegations against Trump, but nonetheless, it made clear the opposition party's intention to press the issue further in the wake of the midterms.
The report further calls for an "independent special counsel to investigate the president" on his connections to Jeffrey Epstein and the alleged cover-up of the government files related to the deceased sex trafficker, as well as Attorney General Todd Blanche's "conflicts of interest and the Justice Department’s reluctance to share relevant evidence with state and foreign law enforcement."
"The more than 50-page report alleges that Trump was 'an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of young women in the mid-to-late 1990s,'" MS NOW detailed. "Although it also contains at least one entirely new allegation against the president, it provides no direct evidence other than the woman’s own conversations with Judiciary Committee staff. For years, Trump has denied that he engaged in any sexual misconduct with any woman connected to Jeffrey Epstein, and he has also said that he knew nothing about Epstein’s crimes. The report also repeats several other longstanding, unsubstantiated allegations against Trump."
The report added: "A Democratic Judiciary Committee source told MS NOW the report draws on publicly available accounts as well as conversations with survivors. The source declined to provide additional details about those conversations, citing concerns for survivors’ privacy. The source also declined to quantify how many survivor conversations they had. The report also compares Trump’s statements about Epstein in recent years to documentary evidence — including emails, deposition transcripts, Trump’s prior public statements, and Trump’s drawings and signatures. Among the discrepancies highlighted in the report are inconsistencies with what Trump has said about his awareness of Epstein’s crimes."
The report further alleged that Trump's Justice Department has been working to keep the public "in the dark" about the true nature of Trump's connections to Epstein. It also suggested that Blanche "may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice while acting on a mission to protect Trump," as well as potential "witness tampering and obstruction of an official proceeding" as part of his interview with Epstein's incarcerated lieutenant, Ghislaine Maxwell.
"Blanche’s apparent instructions not to discuss a specific Epstein victim, and how that victim could implicate Donald Trump, could easily run afoul of 18 U.S.C. § 1512, which forbids hindering or delaying the communication of information relating to the potential commission of a federal offense to a law enforcement officer, as well as corruptly influencing the testimony of any person in an official proceeding — such as a congressional interview and investigation," the report detailed.
