Speaker Mike Johnson Calls For Epstein Files To Be Released
Speaker Mike Johnson is demanding full transparency from the Department of Justice on everything it knows about Jeffrey Epstein, and he wants Attorney General Pam Bondi to explain herself.
Johnson, in an interview released after House Republicans blocked a Democrat-led vote to force disclosure of Epstein related files, told Benny Johnson that the public deserves the truth.
“It’s a very delicate subject, but you should put everything out there, let the people decide it,” Johnson said. “I’m for transparency.”
His remarks come after the DOJ and FBI concluded that Epstein died by suicide and that there was no client list, as conspiracy theories have claimed. That conclusion, and Bondi’s previous comments, have fueled questions among Trump’s supporters.
In February, Bondi told Fox News she had files related to the Epstein investigation “sitting on my desk right now,” including a document suspected of naming powerful people connected to Epstein’s sex crimes.
But in a Cabinet meeting earlier this month, she walked that back.
“My response was, it’s sitting on my desk to be reviewed. Meaning the file, along with the JFK and MLK files,” Bondi said. She denied ever saying she had a client list.
Now Speaker Johnson says Bondi needs to clear things up.
“I think she was talking about documents, as I understood, that were on her desk. I don’t know that she was specific about a list or whatever, but she needs to come forward and explain that to everybody,” he said.
Trump, meanwhile, is standing by her.
“The attorney general has handled that very well. She’s really done a very good job, and I think that when you look at that, you’ll understand it,” Trump told reporters Tuesday at the White House.
Still, some of Trump’s top allies, including lawmakers and former adviser Elon Musk, are furious that the files remain sealed.
Johnson said he is “anxious” to get the issue resolved so the DOJ can turn its focus to real priorities.
“We need the DOJ focusing on the major priorities. Let’s get this thing resolved so that they can deal with violent crime and public safety and election integrity and going after ActBlue and the things that the president is most concerned about,” Johnson said.
🚨BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Speaker Mike Johnson says he supports Ghislaine Maxwell testifying to Congress and demands the DOJ release everything they have on Epstein:
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 15, 2025
“I’m for transparency. We should put everything out there and let the people decide. Pam Bondi needs to come forward… pic.twitter.com/diB5cDQmAk
The former attorney for deceased human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein “unequivocally” said that President Donald Trump is nowhere to be seen on the infamous list of clients that his former client had.
David Schoen, who represented Epstein in the final weeks before he died in 2019, revealed in June that he had questioned his imprisoned client about any potential dirt on Trump.
The comments resurfaced Monday as a new twist in the already chaotic saga of the Trump administration’s handling of Epstein’s files, following a Justice Department memo leaked to Axios last week that concluded the disgraced financier committed suicide and did not maintain a “client list” to blackmail elites.
“I was hired to lead Jeffrey Epstein’s defense as his criminal lawyer 9 days before he died. He sought my advice for months before that. I can say authoritatively, unequivocally, and definitively that he had no information to hurt President Trump. I specifically asked him!” Schoen said in a post on X.
MAGA supporters are voicing frustration with President Trump after he offered a strong defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi, whose Department of Justice recently denied the existence of a Jeffrey Epstein client list, despite years of promises from Trump allies to expose the disgraced financier’s secrets.
Longtime conservatives and Trump loyalists took to social media and voiced their anger in person at a convention in Florida, insisting the Epstein scandal “will not go away.”
