See below for video and highlights from Rep. James Walkinshaw yesterday speaking with Kristin Welker of NBC about the Epstein files partial/redacted/insufficient release.
- “It’s enormously frustrating that the law is clear. The files in full were supposed to be released today and the Trump administration is not in compliance with that law. So that’s very frustrating…the law is clear that the files in full are supposed to have been released today. If the Department of Justice felt like they weren’t on track to meet that legal deadline, they should have communicated that to Congress days or weeks ago. They’ve had 30 days to redact what need to be redacted from the files and release them in full to to the public. So, they have not followed the law. We’re going to explore all of our legal options to make sure that the complete files with obviously information related to victims and survivors redacted comes to light.”
- “…it’s important to remember President Trump has done everything in his power to block these files from being released. He tried to browbeat Republican members of Congress to remove their name from the discharge petition. He was actively lobbying against the discharge petition and the vote before it was held until he realized that he was going to lose. So he’s tried everything in his power to block it. And in Congress, in a rare instance, in this particular Congress, stood up to him and said, ‘the American people want to see these files, the American people deserve transparency, and the survivors especially deserve accountability for those involved in the crimes committed.”
- “…yes, at a minimum, they need to come before the country and Congress and explain why they haven’t released the full files today and lay out the timeline moving forward – I hope a rapid timeline for the American people to get the transparency that they want here.”
- “I think for me and and I think for most people across the country, we want to know who, if anyone who maybe hasn’t been yet implicated, was involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. Who were the accompllices who helped him to commit these crimes? Who perhaps knew that these crimes were taking place and didn’t go to the authorities at the time? I think those are all really, really important questions. But this is a story of, you know, rich and powerful men abusing, raping and abusing young girls and women. And we need to get the full truth. Everyone who knew about it, everyone who was involved, everyone who might have helped it happen.”
UPDATE 12/20: Also, here’s Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA10), who says DoJ is “absolutely in violation of the law…there’s no excuse for this.”
Video: @RepSuhas (D-VA10) says DoJ is “absolutely in violation of the law…they needed to release everything by today, not STARTING today, not part of it today…let’s be clear, there’s no excuse for this…we will pursue every possible legal avenue” https://t.co/SWJCOM8Mpu pic.twitter.com/Wt6d6wNaSQ
— Blue Virginia (@bluevirginia) December 20, 2025
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