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BumRushDaShow

(160,105 posts)
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 08:44 AM Sep 4

Epstein List Could Be Read On House Floor Under Constitutional Immunity

Source: Newsweek

Published Sep 04, 2025 at 2:39 AM EDT Updated Sep 04, 2025 at 4:17 AM EDT

Republican Representatives Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene have said they would be willing to take advantage of a constitutional immunity rule to read the names of Jeffrey Epstein's associates allegedly involved in abuse. Newsweek contacted Massie and Greene for comment via emails sent outside regular business hours.

Why It Matters

It comes after survivors of Epstein's abuse made their voices heard on Capitol Hill, pushing for more files about the sex-trafficking investigation into the late financier to be released.

The Epstein saga has roiled President Donald Trump's administration since the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a two-page memo in July that a "client list" that Attorney General Pam Bondi had intimated was on her desk did not exist and that no additional records from the investigation would be made public.

Trump has sought to move on from the issue and blasted it as a "Democrat hoax," but it has caused a split among the president's allies and supporters. Epstein, a convicted sex offender, was found dead in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in what authorities ruled a suicide.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/epstein-list-could-read-congress-house-floor-thomas-massie-marjorie-taylor-greene-2124273

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Epstein List Could Be Read On House Floor Under Constitutional Immunity (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 4 OP
At this point, I really don't know Miguelito Loveless Sep 4 #1
agree 100% chicoescuela Sep 4 #14
The bottom line is this... Moostache Sep 4 #16
Definitely true that MAGA Miguelito Loveless Sep 5 #30
G.O.P. Pedo Protection Pimps will do their damndest to squelch this BoRaGard Sep 4 #2
G.O.P. has a new connotation.. Moostache Sep 4 #17
I was told by MANY people THAT THERE IS NO LIST! Brainfodder Sep 4 #3
Fanatical literalists cling to that notion for some reason Orrex Sep 4 #4
While there is no evidence of a list, one is bring prepared. I'd refer you to today's BBC Reporting. 24601 Sep 4 #19
How can Epstein be a "Democrat hoax" when we have actual photos of him? KS Toronado Sep 4 #5
Smells like a setup angrychair Sep 4 #6
Yup. The main name that they are going to leave out is their boss's. Clouds Passing Sep 4 #10
I predict every Dem president for the last 50 years will be on there, Bayard Sep 4 #24
This is getting ridiculous lonely bird Sep 4 #7
You left out men in black (robes) usonian Sep 4 #15
Agreed lonely bird Sep 4 #27
NOPE! F%&% them, NO IMMUNITY to anyone, and I don't care who is in that list. Escurumbele Sep 4 #8
I believe the immunity that is being referred sdfernando Sep 4 #9
I would be with you 100% if this ethos was extened to ALL of the law... Moostache Sep 4 #18
If Marjory Taylor Greene reads anything in Congress, I'll guarantee you it would be a fake list FakeNoose Sep 4 #21
Then read katie johnsons material. She accuses trump of rape at epsteins nyc home. Karadeniz Sep 4 #11
OOOOR Hornedfrog2000 Sep 4 #12
Huh? What "we" are you referring to? Wiz Imp Sep 4 #29
But the files are not a list. The files are truckloads of videos, photos, depositions, Scrivener7 Sep 4 #13
The financial transactions of Jeffrey Epstein are held by the US Dept. of Treasury FakeNoose Sep 4 #22
And they're stonewalling Wyden's requests for them. Scrivener7 Sep 4 #25
It's amazing that Sen. Wyden even got to see them FakeNoose Sep 4 #28
We have no right to give the rights of those young girls away. Hope22 Sep 4 #20
Don't talk about it, just do it, republianmushroom Sep 4 #23
And then watch the muddying of the media waters. progressoid Sep 4 #26

Miguelito Loveless

(5,194 posts)
1. At this point, I really don't know
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 08:49 AM
Sep 4

we can trust them. This could be a long con to set them up as heroes who then read a fake list implicating Dems and exonerating Trump.

Moostache

(10,783 posts)
16. The bottom line is this...
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 11:25 AM
Sep 4

The "list" is fake if it does not include prominent people from both sides of the political aisle, period.

Any list that massively implicates one political party's members and exonerates the other is a fraud. This scandal is only a scandal because Trump is trying to shield both whatever remains of his reputation (if only in his caverous empty head) and to curry favor with his most desirable group of people - those with piles of money that they are willing to give to him to foster his life style and fake image as a business maven and true financial 'genius'.

Full fucking stop.

If "the list" truly exonerated Trump, he would has festooned it on T-shirts, Coffee mugs and flags already and been selling them to his sheeple long ago.

The fact that he is instead using the old reliable stand-by of "fake news" / "democart hoax" (which is ONLY rolled out when is ACTUALLY guilty of whatever he is accused of or at least implicated as an accessory to it) is the other tell-tale sign here.

But finally - no one actually cares - the GOP slaves will vote the way they are told and they will hate who they are told to hate because that is what drones do - they follow orders and place blame where it is directed, not where it is earned or warranted.

This Trumpstein scandal is just like all that came before it. It is 100% true, it is 100% disqualifying for high office and it 100% will not matter at all in the end.

Miguelito Loveless

(5,194 posts)
30. Definitely true that MAGA
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:40 AM
Sep 5

will back Trump regardless. He could sodomize a toddler on the White House lawn, while beating a kitten to death with a puppy and MAGA would brag about how great it is.

But the other 70% of the electorate would not vote for him. This is why I have serious doubts he will allow the results of the 2026 elections to be recognized since he can't win.

Once you give a dictator power, they are not going to surrender it.

BoRaGard

(7,526 posts)
2. G.O.P. Pedo Protection Pimps will do their damndest to squelch this
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 09:04 AM
Sep 4

since it's clear from the record that the GOPers despise facts and truth,
and will go to the mat to protect pedophiles and their "Besties."

Brainfodder

(7,781 posts)
3. I was told by MANY people THAT THERE IS NO LIST!
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 09:23 AM
Sep 4


Please proceed MTG and with that HELL might just have thawed a bit?


This something burger is really starting to REEK!


Good luck reasonable people.

Orrex

(66,019 posts)
4. Fanatical literalists cling to that notion for some reason
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 09:43 AM
Sep 4

To them, it seems, a “list” is nothing less than a detailed accounting of all clients, hand-written b Epstein and notarized in front of three witnesses. Short of that, we dare not speak of any “list.”

Insisting on that petty distinction is, for some reason, more important to the crimes committee or the victims brutalized.

24601

(4,107 posts)
19. While there is no evidence of a list, one is bring prepared. I'd refer you to today's BBC Reporting.
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 11:36 AM
Sep 4

"Victims of Jeffrey Epstein have shared emotional accounts of sexual abuse as they called for lawmakers to release more files about the convicted sex offender on the steps of the US Capitol."

"One of the women, Lisa Phillips, said the group had begun compiling a confidential list of Epstein associates who they say were involved in abuse."

"We will confidentially compile the names we all know were regularly in the Epstein world," she said. "It will be done by survivors, and for survivors."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yvpgyjed8o

KS Toronado

(21,260 posts)
5. How can Epstein be a "Democrat hoax" when we have actual photos of him?
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 09:54 AM
Sep 4

We need bumper stickers along the lines .......tRump says this guy never lived.

angrychair

(11,127 posts)
6. Smells like a setup
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:00 AM
Sep 4

They will just read a bunch of names of Democrats and then claim "there are no Republican names on the list". That seems to be there MO

Bayard

(26,974 posts)
24. I predict every Dem president for the last 50 years will be on there,
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 02:15 PM
Sep 4

As well as, every Dem man currently in Congress, or governorships.

lonely bird

(2,536 posts)
7. This is getting ridiculous
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:00 AM
Sep 4

How many congresscritters are on the list? How many others in local, state and federal government?

This needs broadcast at once.

usonian

(20,480 posts)
15. You left out men in black (robes)
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:53 AM
Sep 4

No immunity for statutory rapists
Nor statuary rapists (they need therapy, as well)

Escurumbele

(3,896 posts)
8. NOPE! F%&% them, NO IMMUNITY to anyone, and I don't care who is in that list.
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:04 AM
Sep 4

Anyone who abused young women should be held accountable, enough with crooks getting away with crimes.

BS about immunity!

SO, the want to read names of the guilty, and then let them walk free, no accountability? People have lost their minds if anyone accepts that crooked idea.

sdfernando

(5,901 posts)
9. I believe the immunity that is being referred
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:31 AM
Sep 4

is to the Congressional Representatives and they having immunity while speaking on the House floor. They would be in violation if they spoke these names to say the media in an interview. This is NOT immunity to the perpetrators.

Please correct me if I'm wrongm

Moostache

(10,783 posts)
18. I would be with you 100% if this ethos was extened to ALL of the law...
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 11:35 AM
Sep 4

We should rectify the sins of 2009 in particular. The banking titans that crashed the system with greed and speculative gambling of liquidity (and outright FRAUD in selling their garbage to the public as "AAA" bonds) NEVER faced the reckoning and accountability that they should have. Every single one of the 'leaders' then - Dimon, Mack, Shrub's entire cabinet, etc. - should have been charged and bankrupted with fines and penalties. NONE of them should have been allowed to return to the industry, EVER.

We also must return to 2021 and find a way to rectify the damage to justice done by Trump's pardoning of CRIMINALS because they waved his 'colors' and HIS flags. The law died a little more this year, but the lack of draconian penalties and ironclad sentences for the insurrectionists only means that they WILL do it again (or worse) to retain or steal power and to further erode the trust of the people in our government. People always screaming about the "evil gummint" - but where the fuck do these idiots think the "gummint" comes from? They are CITIZENS, not some evil robot or Skynet Legislative terminators!

The state of the Rule of Law is currently in goddamn tatters and without addressing THAT, this is an ungiovernable mess, not a nation of laws over men.

FakeNoose

(38,627 posts)
21. If Marjory Taylor Greene reads anything in Congress, I'll guarantee you it would be a fake list
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 12:08 PM
Sep 4

They're probably already writing up a list that has only Dems' and liberals' names on it.

I'm all for releasing the Epstein documents, and I'd like to read it for myself. I don't need to hear anything MTG has to say.

 

Hornedfrog2000

(866 posts)
12. OOOOR
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:40 AM
Sep 4

We just release the files and dare krasnov to sue us over it. It is what republicans would do. Or leak the list. Pretty simple. But we wont, because we have soft people writing letters instead.

Wiz Imp

(7,114 posts)
29. Huh? What "we" are you referring to?
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:51 PM
Sep 4

The only people who have the files are the DOJ. There is no ability for any Democrat to release files they don't possess nor have they ever even seen them.

Scrivener7

(57,146 posts)
13. But the files are not a list. The files are truckloads of videos, photos, depositions,
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 10:45 AM
Sep 4

financial records etc.

Just reading a list into the record, unless it was the list the victims are compiling of THEIR RECOLLECTIONS of who abused them, any list wouldn't cut it for me.

FakeNoose

(38,627 posts)
22. The financial transactions of Jeffrey Epstein are held by the US Dept. of Treasury
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 12:16 PM
Sep 4

It includes his large number of wire transfers with Russian and eastern European banks, plus other interesting stuff. Epstein was laundering money for many years, in the names of extremely wealthy individuals. It doesn't imply that he was also giving them access to young females ... not all of his clients participated in that, but many did.

Long story short, it's going to be a many years before the financial stuff is revealed. After all the participants are dead, I'm sure.

FakeNoose

(38,627 posts)
28. It's amazing that Sen. Wyden even got to see them
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 06:47 PM
Sep 4

He wasn't allowed to make copies or take notes ... but he did see a lot of incriminating evidence.
He realized the importance of it, and that's why he's been sounding the alarms.

Hope22

(4,161 posts)
20. We have no right to give the rights of those young girls away.
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 11:39 AM
Sep 4

Don’t know what the list dwellers fear. Years of snuggling in a jail cell. They will know just what to do. I’m so sick of these b@$terds!

progressoid

(51,909 posts)
26. And then watch the muddying of the media waters.
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 05:10 PM
Sep 4

Right wing media and the MAGAs would throw so much mud around that nobody would trust they are hearing the real thing.

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