共和党人辩称，民主党在拜登执政的四年中本有机会公开相关文件
作者：阿什利·奥利弗
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发布时间：2025年12月15日上午9:39（美国东部时间）| 更新时间：2026年2月17日上午11:53（美国东部时间）
前拜登政府白宫新闻秘书詹妮弗·普萨基（Jen Psaki）最近对围绕杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）性交易案的国际”网络”表示担忧，呼应了许多民主党人的言论。这些民主党人在司法部公布爱泼斯坦非机密案件文件后，抓住了这个在政治上有利可图的话题。
“是特朗普，没错……但也包括富人、精英阶层，以及世界上几乎所有派系，”普萨基在一段视频中说道。她现在是MSNow的政治分析师。”是全球领导人，是商界人士，可能还有好莱坞人士，谁知道呢。是一群认为自己可以为所欲为的人。”
自去年以来，民主党人声称，由于特朗普在担任总统前曾是爱泼斯坦众多富商朋友之一，而爱泼斯坦被指控与未成年人发生性交易，特朗普在入主白宫时对这些文件表现出可疑的漠视，因此爱泼斯坦案件现在具有新的重要性。
然而，共和党人反驳称，在普萨基担任白宫首席发言人期间，民主党人在拜登政府执政的四年中完全可以接触到这些文件，但他们既没有公开这些文件，也没有发现对特朗普不利的信息。福克斯新闻数字频道已联系普萨基请求置评。
联邦法官下令解密爱泼斯坦案件大陪审团记录
杰弗里·爱泼斯坦和吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦（Ghislaine Maxwell）均因爱泼斯坦多年虐待未成年女孩而被起诉联邦性交易罪。（Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images）
众议院司法委员会高级成员、马里兰州民主党众议员杰米·拉斯金（Jamie Raskin）告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，民主党前后态度不一致的说法”严重脱离现实”，并指出他自己早在2019年就开始调查前特朗普政府劳工部长亚历克斯·阿科斯塔（Alex Acosta）在2008年与爱泼斯坦的认罪协议处理方式。
拉斯金辩称，民主党并没有改变立场，而是特朗普政府变了。
“特朗普上任后突然终止了对爱泼斯坦同谋者的联邦调查，”拉斯金说，指控该政府开展了”大规模编辑项目”以掩盖特朗普和其他人与爱泼斯坦关系的证据。
司法部1月份公布了超过300万页文件，但表示另有300万页因包含受害者信息或受各种特权保护而被扣留。
“民主党一直致力于支持对爱泼斯坦同谋者的调查，”拉斯金说，”我们始终站在完全透明和为受害者伸张正义的一边。”
纽约州民主党众议员、众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯（Hakeem Jeffries）发表了类似言论，称”我们只想要完全透明，这样美国人民才能获得真相、全部真相，以及仅此而已的真相。”
科默指责监督民主党人’选择性’发布爱泼斯坦岛文件：’追逐头条’
2025年5月8日，美国马里兰州民主党众议员杰米·拉斯金在华盛顿特区美国国会大厦介绍法案时到达向记者发表讲话。（Andrew Harnik/Getty Images）
民主党推动透明化的力度加大，此前该党对爱泼斯坦案件的兴趣时断时续。一些民主党人将此归因于在吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦的性交易案件尚未审结、且部分爱泼斯坦受害者正在提起诉讼期间，寻求相关信息的敏感性。
但民主党人现在对爱泼斯坦的统一关注，正值共和党人难以驾驭这个问题，导致党内分裂。
这些文件成为政府的政治棘手问题，起因是去年司法部长帕姆·邦迪（Pam Bondi）在混乱中公布了司法部早已公开的文件，这激怒了特朗普支持者中的一部分人，他们原本期待有新的信息公布。
司法部当时表示，由于法院命令和受害者隐私保护，不会披露更多文件，并表示该部门未发现有理由对其他人提起诉讼的信息。然而，出于某种转变，邦迪在特朗普的指示下，审查了爱泼斯坦据称与民主党人（包括前总统比尔·克林顿）的联系。
与爱泼斯坦关系密切但从未被指控与此案相关的总统，也在数月压力下签署了一项透明度法案，该法案要求司法部在30天内发布所有与爱泼斯坦相关的记录。其中最积极支持该法案的是前佐治亚州共和党众议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林（Marjorie Taylor Greene），这导致她与她曾经热烈支持的总统公开决裂。
众议院监督委员会也因爱泼斯坦材料处理方式引发内讧
众议院议长迈克·约翰逊（Mike Johnson），来自路易斯安那州的共和党人，同时面临民主党人的指责，即他在今年夏天将众议院休会约两个月，以避免就爱泼斯坦透明化立法进行投票。约翰逊反驳称，在他看来，民主党人直到特朗普上任后才对爱泼斯坦案件表现出松懈态度。
“我们不会允许民主党人以此为政治掩护。他们有四年时间，”约翰逊当时告诉记者。”要记住，拜登政府掌握爱泼斯坦文件四年，这些民主党人或国会中的任何人都没有就此采取任何行动。”
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众议院监督委员会也因爱泼斯坦相关材料的处理方式引发内部矛盾，因为该委员会一直在积极传唤、审查和发布来自司法部和爱泼斯坦遗产的大量爱泼斯坦相关记录。
委员会共和党人表示，他们的民主党对手”选择性地”发布材料，例如包含特朗普和爱泼斯坦的照片，并指责他们”试图通过欺骗、欺诈和无耻的扭曲来制造虚假的骗局”。
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Psaki joins Democrat push for Epstein files after ex-Biden spox rarely mentioned it from White House
Republicans argue Democrats had four years under Biden to make files public
By Ashley Oliver
Fox News
Published December 15, 2025 9:39am EST | Updated February 17, 2026 11:53am EST
Former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki raised alarm recently about an international “web” surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking case, echoing remarks from many Democrats who have seized on the politically expedient topic in the wake of the Department of Justice releasing Epstein’s unclassified case files.
“It is Trump, yes. … But it is the wealthy, the elites, and basically every faction of the world,” Psaki, a political analyst for MS Now, said in a video clip. “It’s global leaders. It’s people in the business sector. It is people in Hollywood probably, who knows. It is a bunch of people who think that they can get away with anything.”
Democrats have since last year claimed that Epstein’s case has newfound salience because Trump, once among Epstein’s many wealthy friends before Epstein was accused of trafficking underage girls, was, in their view, suspiciously dismissive of the files when he took office.
Republicans have countered, however, that Democrats had full access to the documents for four years under the Biden administration — when Psaki served as the chief White House spokesperson — and neither released them nor uncovered information damaging to Trump. Fox News Digital reached out to Psaki for comment.
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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were both indicted on federal sex trafficking charges stemming from Epstein’s years of abuse of underage girls.(Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News Digital claims of Democratic inconsistency “are seriously detached from reality” and pointed to his own investigations dating back to 2019 into former Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s handling of a 2008 plea deal with Epstein.
Raskin argued the Democratic Party has not shifted, but rather that the Trump administration has.
“Trump abruptly killed the ongoing federal investigation into Epstein’s co-conspirators when he took office,” Raskin said, alleging the administration undertook a “massive redaction project” to hide evidence of Trump’s and others’ ties to Epstein.
The DOJ in January released more than three million pages of files but signaled that another three million were withheld because they contained victim information or were protected by various privileges.
“Democrats have always fought to support an investigation of Epstein’s co-conspirators,” Raskin said. “We have always been on the side of full transparency and justice for the victims.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has made similar remarks, saying, “All we want is full transparency, so that the American people can get the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
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Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., arrives to speak to reporters as he introduces legislation at the U.S. Capitol Building on May 8, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The heightened Democratic push for transparency comes after years during which the party showed more intermittent interest in Epstein’s case, which some Democrats have attributed to the sensitivity of seeking information while Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking case was pending and while some of Epstein’s victims were pursuing litigation.
But the Democrats’ new, unified fixation on Epstein has come as Republicans have struggled to manage the issue, which has caused intra-party fractures.
The files became a political thorn for the administration after Attorney General Pam Bondi’s chaotic rollout last year of already-public files by the DOJ, which enraged a faction of Trump’s base who had been expecting new information.
The DOJ said at the time that it would not disclose further files because of court orders and victim privacy and said the department found no information that would warrant bringing charges against anyone else. In a turnabout, however, Bondi ordered a review, at Trump’s direction, of Epstein’s alleged connections to Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton.
The president, who was closely associated with Epstein but was never accused of any crimes related to him, also relented to months-long pressure to sign a transparency bill last year that ordered the DOJ to release all of its Epstein-related records within 30 days. Among the most vocal supporters of the bill was former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., which resulted in her highly public falling out with the president, whom she once fervently supported.
Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks as President Donald Trump looks on during a press conference in the Oval Office of the White House on Oct. 15, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The Epstein saga has also plagued the administration because some of Trump’s allies, now in top roles in the DOJ, once promoted the existence of incriminating, nonpublic Epstein files, including a supposed list of sexual predators who were his clients. FBI Director Kash Patel, for instance, said in 2023 the government was hiding “Epstein’s list” of “pedophiles.” But the DOJ leaders failed to deliver on those claims upon taking office.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., meanwhile, faced accusations from Democrats that he kept the House in recess for about two months in the summer to avoid votes on Epstein transparency legislation. Johnson shot back that Democrats had, in his view, been lax on the Epstein case until Trump took office.
“We’re not going to allow the Democrats to use this for political cover. They had four years,” Johnson told reporters at the time. “Remember, the Biden administration held the Epstein files for four years and not a single one of these Democrats, or anyone in Congress, made any thought about that at all.”
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The House Oversight Committee has also spurred infighting over how Epstein material has been handled, as it has been actively engaged in subpoenaing, reviewing, and releasing large batches of Epstein-related records from both the DOJ and Epstein’s estate.
Committee Republicans have said their Democratic counterparts “cherry-picked” material to release, such as photos featuring Trump and Epstein, and that they “keep trying to create a fake hoax by being dishonest, deceptive, and shamelessly deranged.”
Ashley Oliver is a reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business, covering the Justice Department and legal affairs. Email story tips to ashley.oliver@fox.com.
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