BURSTRep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) hit back Thursday at a move by the Trump administration to unseal grand jury testimony related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
“Nice try,” the New York congressman wrote on X.
President Trump said Thursday that he was directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to release relevant grand jury testimony on the Epstein case. Goldman, however, contended that grand jury testimony would only contain evidence relating to Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
Goldman, a former federal prosecutor, then ticked off several other types of documents that he said could actually contain evidence about potential Epstein clients: videos, photographs, recordings, witness interviews, texts and emails.
“That’s where the evidence about Trump and others will be,” he added.
The announcement from the Trump administration generated pushback from other lawmakers hungering for the files.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), perhaps the most vocal GOP lawmaker pushing for the release of the files, wrote “Keep the pressure on, it’s working. But we want all the files.”
An effort by Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) to force a vote in the House on releasing the Epstein files has slowly garnered steam from members of both parties this week.
GOP leadership, meanwhile, has weighed putting a non-binding resolution on Epstein to the House floor as a way to soothe GOP frustrations over a rescissions package passed late last night.
The saga has become a rare moment where the Trump administration has taken considerable friendly fire from MAGA influencers and even some GOP lawmakers, at least 10 of whom have signed on to Massie’s and Khanna’s effort.
However, Trump allies appeared to coalesce, at least temporarily, around bashing a new report in the Wall Street Journal that Trump had apparently written Epstein a “bawdy” birthday letter. Trump has denied writing the letter and said Thursday he would sue.