House Democrats suddenly want a special counsel for Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirators — the same mechanism they weaponized against Donald Trump for years — and they're aiming it squarely at the president while the rest of the network's powerful friends remain unmentioned.
Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee released a 53-page staff report Monday entitled "'We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey,'" and used it to demand Attorney General Todd Blanche appoint an independent special counsel. Ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., led the charge, accusing Trump's DOJ of "systematically suppressing" evidence in what Democrats call the FBI's "Epstein Files."
"The women who survived Epstein deserve to be heard, Congress must have the complete files required by law, and an independent special counsel must investigate Epstein's co-conspirators and DOJ's cover-up," Raskin said in a statement reported by Breitbart.
The report focuses heavily on Trump, listing five women it says "directly accused Trump of rape or sexual assault in Epstein's company or presence" and three others who describe encounters where Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell "appeared to offer women to Trump." Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and says the two former friends became estranged long before Epstein's arrest, pointing to his decision to ban Epstein from Mar-a-Lago.
White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt didn't mince words: "The fact remains that President Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club decades ago for being a creep to his female employees." She called the Democrats' effort a "fake narrative" and a "clear distraction from the government opening back up again."
Here's what neither side is addressing: the client list. For years, powerful figures across both parties and the transatlantic elite circled Epstein's orbit. Flight logs, black books, and settlement details have been fought over in courtrooms and backrooms while the public gets crumbs. Now Democrats want a special counsel — but only to train the lens on one man. Breitbart framed the story straight as a Democratic demand; what went unmentioned by either the Democrats or the coverage is who else might surface if a truly independent counsel actually pulled the thread.
The same institutional players who spent decades looking the other way while Epstein operated — prosecutors who cut the 2008 sweetheart deal, intelligence agencies that never asked questions, politicians who attended the dinners — are now positioning themselves as champions of accountability. Raskin and company aren't wrong that survivors deserve justice. But a special counsel scoped to one target isn't an investigation — it's a hit job with better branding.
The question isn't whether Trump knew Epstein. The question is who else did, and why this government — under both parties — has fought so hard to keep that answer buried.
