- Greene predicts many more Republicans will vote to unseal Epstein files, threatening Trump’s grip on the GOP.
- Bipartisan discharge petition forces a full House vote, framing transparency versus protecting powerful allies.
- Survivor testimonies and new documents tie elites to Epstein, intensifying political and moral pressure on Republicans.
In a stunning turn that’s sending shockwaves through Republican ranks, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has publicly forecasted that a far greater number of her fellow Republicans will vote to unseal the Jeffrey Epstein files than the handful who’ve already broken ranks—directly challenging President Donald Trump’s frantic efforts to quash the effort.
The prediction, dropped in a fiery X post late Wednesday, comes as a bipartisan discharge petition—spearheaded by Greene, Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) alongside Democrats—gains unstoppable momentum, forcing a full House floor vote as early as next week.
If Greene’s hunch proves right, it could mark the first major crack in GOP unity under Trump’s iron-fisted control, amplifying scrutiny on the president’s long-denied closeness to the late sex trafficker and his inner circle’s role in what critics call a blatant cover-up.
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“I expect the number of Republicans to be a lot higher that actually vote yes,” Greene wrote on X, emphasizing that while only four GOP members initially signed the petition, the on-record vote will expose true sentiments.
“But remember the original 4.”
Her words echo a broader sentiment bubbling up among conservatives weary of shielding predators under the guise of party loyalty, especially as fresh tranches of Epstein-related documents— including over 23,000 pages subpoenaed from his estate—paint a damning picture of elite enablers, with Trump’s name appearing repeatedly in compromising contexts.
The Petition’s Path: From Stalemate to Showdown
The push traces back to a rare bipartisan alliance: Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) kicked off the resolution demanding the Justice Department release its full Epstein dossier, long sealed amid legal battles that stretched through the 2024 election.
Democrats, locked out of power, have hammered the issue relentlessly, using committee hearings to spotlight survivors’ testimonies and subpoena explosive emails detailing Epstein’s web of influence.
What started as a long-shot bid has snowballed.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has resorted to extraordinary delays—including a controversial week-long shutdown of Congress in July—to stall proceedings.
But with the discharge petition now primed to bypass his gatekeeping, all 435 members will soon face a binary choice: back transparency for victims or appear complicit in obstruction.
Trump, sensing the peril, has lashed out publicly and privately.
In a blistering Truth Social rant, he branded the effort a “Democrat hoax” and warned of “retaliation” against defectors—rumors swirl of Situation Room browbeating sessions targeting Mace and Boebert.
Yet Greene, a Trump diehard who’s faced her own White House heat, isn’t backing down.
In a recent CBS Mornings interview, she dismissed the president’s opposition as a “huge miscalculation,” insisting, “I truly just stand with the women, and I think they deserve to be the ones that we’re fighting for.”
Inside the Victims’ Stories: A Moral Reckoning for Republicans
No one captures the human toll quite like Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), a House Oversight Committee member who’s sat through gut-wrenching survivor hearings.
In a candid New Republic podcast interview this week, Ansari recounted the “sickening” details: girls as young as 13 groomed by Ghislaine Maxwell, blackmailed with family threats—like one whose mother battled cancer, only to face veiled murder plots tied to medical access.
“Jeffrey Epstein essentially blackmailed her and said, If you do this or don’t, it’s the difference between your mom getting the treatment that she needs or your mom being killed,” Ansari shared.
“Even alluding to things like, I will decide what anesthesiologist is in the room. Harrowing stories.”
These accounts, Ansari argues, are dismantling GOP defenses.
“This is going to be the vote that is just impossible,” she told host Greg Sargent, predicting “at least 50 Republicans will break” because it’s a “clear, black-and-white decision… do you support pedophiles, or do you support accountability for the victims?”
The few Republicans she’s spoken with echo this: relentless Trump threats—primaries, blackmail—have kept the caucus in line on issues like Medicaid cuts or shutdown brinkmanship.
But Epstein? That’s the dam-breaker.
Ansari, who led Oversight Democrats in August’s call for survivor hearings, sees Trump’s fingerprints everywhere.
Newly surfaced emails, subpoenaed from Epstein’s estate, reveal the then-president spending “hours with one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims” and potentially joining him for Thanksgiving 2017—his first as commander-in-chief.
Even Epstein, in a chilling aside, labeled Trump “the worst” of the “bad people” he’d met.
“Donald Trump has been lying over and over again… saying that this is a Democratic hoax, that he barely had any relationship with Jeffrey Epstein,” Ansari fired back.
“No. Donald Trump was very close to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.”
Polling bears this out: Epstein is Trump’s most toxic issue, with a net -39 favorability.
Democrats’ Playbook: Hearings, Whistleblowers, and Senate Squeeze
With the House vote as a fulcrum, Democrats aren’t letting up.
Ansari outlined a multi-pronged assault: subpoena Maxwell for congressional testimony (thwarting any Trump pardon), haul in financial enablers who “turned the other way,” and even summon figures like former Prince Andrew.
“We’re not going to allow her to get a pardon from the Trump administration,” she vowed, citing leaks about Maxwell’s cushy jail perks.
Oversight Democrats, under Ranking Member Robert Garcia, are gearing up for more whistleblowers—”more victims may come forward,” Ansari said—and bracing for a Democratic House flip in 2026 to unleash unbridled probes targeting Trump allies like Pam Bondi and Kash Patel.
The goal? Force a Senate vote, where “it becomes very difficult for those Republican senators to hide or let cowardice overwhelm them.”
Greene’s postscript—that Democrats “had 4 years under Biden to release it all, but never even tried or cared”—has drawn swift pushback, with critics noting court seals until 2024 and Biden’s prosecution of Maxwell.
But her core message resonates: transparency trumps tribalism.
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