Representative Thomas Massie, who pushed for the original Epstein Files Transparency Act, has a new bill he’s going to force through the House.

“When we return next week, we’ll get 218 signatures for Epstein Files Transparency Act II, which guarantees a vote,” Massie wrote Thursday on X. “Survivors will be able to get their own records, State Attorneys General can prosecute crimes, and we can take the DOJ to court for keeping critical files hidden.”

Massie, who has made an enemy of Trump by opposing the Iran war and pushing for the full release of the Epstein files, first passed the Epstein Transparency Act in November 2025. And though President Trump signed it into law, Massie, Democrats, and a few Republicans argue that his administration didn’t fully abide with what the act required.

“The Department of Justice has flagrantly and consistently ignored EFTA’s disclosure requirements,” Massie wrote earlier this summer in his announcement of the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, co-sponsored by Democratic Senators Ben Ray Luján and Jeff Merkley, and Democratic Representatives Ro Khanna and Teresa Leger Fernández.

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[–] 6 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

I'm in AZ and was in my 20s then. I disagreed with him on a lot of things but always thought he was a halfway decent person. He seems like a saint compared to the fucking garbage people we're dealing with now. One of his last acts was to deny the Republicans taking away Obamacare. He wasn't perfect but whatever. The hyperbolic shit people say is just not reality. Too many people are just black and white about literally everything. People are messy and imperfect.

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  • [–] 2 points 17 hours ago

    Ain't that the truth! People need to learn to see in shades of Gray. Nothing is ever just black and white, like they love to portray it... unless you're talking about things like Epstein. There, you can have your black and white, because Epstein and Trump are clearly rapist monsters. One is dead. The other one needs to be taken down.

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