President Trump moved quickly to sign the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act into law this week, following overwhelming votes in Congress and a groundswell of pressure from both Republicans and Democrats demanding answers. The move forces the Department of Justice to make a broad swath of Epstein-related records accessible, a development the president framed as a necessary blow against the swamp and an opportunity to lay everything on the table.
The House pushed the bill across the finish line in near-unanimous fashion after a discharge petition forced leadership’s hand, and the measure sailed through both chambers with very little opposition. What started as an attempt to bypass political gamesmanship ended with a 427–1 House vote and a unanimous Senate agreement, leaving the administration little room to dodge the demand for transparency.
That discharge petition itself was the result of an unusual bipartisan alliance spearheaded by Rep. Thomas Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna, and it only reached the necessary threshold after the swearing-in of a new House member who added the decisive signature. The procedural maneuver showed the American people — not partisan leaders — could force accountability when they refuse to be stonewalled.
Predictably, Democrats tried to turn this into a partisan stunt, but President Trump and other conservatives rightly pointed out that the files are likely to hurt the political interests of the left far more than ours. The president reminded the country in blunt terms that Epstein’s connections have long crossed party lines and that sunlight is the best disinfectant when Washington’s elite try to cover up uncomfortable truths.
Even media outlets outside the base warned that the bill contains carve-outs — redaction rules and discretion for the attorney general — which means the DOJ will have significant control over what actually becomes public and when. That caveat should make every American cautious and demanding: release must be real, full, and not a selective leak dressed up as transparency.
Across conservative media, commentators have been celebrating the moment — and with good reason. When Dave Rubin posted a direct-message clip of Scott Jennings explaining to Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt why Democrats’ sudden obsession with Epstein is more likely to blow up in their faces than ours, patriots saw the payoff of persistent pressure and principled insistence on the truth.
This is a moment for hardworking Americans to cheer accountability, not partisan theater. Demand full, unredacted disclosure where possible, protect victims’ privacy, but never accept half-measures from a Department of Justice that has too often looked the other way; make Washington answer for what it has kept hidden.
