After months of delays and excuses, Donald Trump is running out of ways to avoid releasing the Epstein Files and providing the American people with long-overdue transparency about Jeffrey Epstein’s heinous crimes. 

Trump has desperately tried to block the release of the Files, but to his dismay, the House’s discharge petition to force a vote to release the Files officially received its 218th vote last night after House Speaker Mike Johnson finally swore in Rep. Adelita Grijalva after 50 DAYS of delay.

Trump made a last-ditch attempt to beg two of his most loyal supporters, Reps. Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace, to change their positions — again, to no avail — and even resorted to making veiled threats against representatives who declined to remove their names, including threatening to withhold support for Mace’s gubernatorial bid. 

In response, DNC Rapid Response Director Kendall Witmer released the following statement: 

“Donald Trump is making a desperate attempt to make his Epstein nightmare go away, but the American people are not going to give up on seeking truth and justice for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims. Not only did we find out yesterday that Trump may have known exactly what Epstein was up to, but we also learned that convicted sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is getting star treatment in prison thanks to the Trump administration. Trump is protecting predators, plain and simple. He can hide all he wants in his gold-plated ballroom or behind the gates of Mar-a-Lago, but he can’t escape the ever-growing demands for accountability. If Trump’s White House really believes it has ‘done more with respect to transparency’ than any other, they should prove it — and release the Files.” 

Trump’s 11th-hour pleas came just hours after the House Oversight Committee released previously unseen emails between pedophile Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell in which Epstein wrote that Trump “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims and “knew about the girls” — undermining Trump’s desperate claims that he “had no idea” about Epstein’s crimes. 

Just yesterday, Trump again called the scandal a “hoax” — but the American people aren’t buying it. Nearly 75% of Americans support releasing the files, including nearly half of Republicans.