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On Laura Ingraham’s show this week, House Oversight Chairman James Comer didn’t mince words — he accused Democrats of padding their political playbook with selective leaks about Jeffrey Epstein that specifically target President Trump, and he defended the GOP’s decision to push for full transparency by releasing the files themselves. Comer framed the episode as another example of the left weaponizing scandal coverage to score cheap political points rather than seeking justice for survivors.
House Democrats did in fact roll out a handful of emails tied to Epstein that referenced Mr. Trump, including exchanges from the Epstein-Maxwell era that have now been thrust back into the headlines. Those selective disclosures, released by Democratic Oversight members, sparked immediate outrage from the right and renewed calls for all of the Epstein materials to be made public so context isn’t lost in a media feeding frenzy.
Republicans answered by dumping the full tranche of documents they’ve subpoenaed — roughly tens of thousands of pages — arguing that Democrats were cherry-picking excerpts designed to smirch a political opponent. The GOP insisted that releasing the full records was the only way to prevent a politically motivated narrative from hardening into supposed “proof” in the court of public opinion.
To be clear, some reporting shows much of this material has been available before, which undercuts the theatrics of a sudden “revelation” and reinforces Comer’s point that the left is staging a spectacle. Survivors and advocates have rightly demanded transparency, but the political class shouldn’t be allowed to use victims as props while peddling half-truths to cable news.
Speaker Mike Johnson has moved to put the question to a full House vote on releasing the remaining Epstein files — a sensible step to end this week-by-week drip of sensationalism and give the American people the whole record to judge. Conservatives want full transparency, not cheap partisan theater; if the left truly cared about victims it would have demanded this openness years ago instead of milking headlines for votes.
Patriots should demand two things: that the truth be fully exposed and that no American be presumed guilty because a charged name shows up in an email chain penned by a depraved criminal. James Comer’s posture — relentless oversight, public disclosure, and refusing to let Democrats run the spin cycle alone — is exactly the kind of principled fight we need in Washington right now.
