Hunter Biden claims Epstein introduced Trump, Melania
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is threatening to sue the Trump administration if they don’t release the Epstein files.
Late last month, Schumer and every Senate Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee invoked an arcane, nearly century-old law to compel the Trump administration to release information on Jeffrey Epstein.
DEMOCRATS ARE HAMMERING REPUBLICANS ON EPSTEIN, BUT ONE SENATOR BRUSHED OFF THE ISSUE YEARS AGO
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., turns to an aide during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington on June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The move came as Epstein drama had already paralyzed the House, and as Democrats in the upper chamber began to ramp up their messaging against President Donald Trump for his handling of the issue.
And Friday was the deadline for the Justice Department and White House to comply, and so far, the documents have not been given to Schumer and Senate Democrats.
“They’re now breaking the law to hide the files,” Schumer said on X. “[Senate Majority Leader John Thune] must appoint a lawyer to defend the Senate in Court and get the files.”
“If he chooses complicity — we’ll take them to court ourselves.”
‘LOUDER BY THE HOUR’: SENATE GOP WANTS THE EPSTEIN DRAMA TO END, BUT DEMOCRATS AREN’T LETTING IT GO
Pam Bondi, US attorney general, during a swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on May 6, 2025. (Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The Justice Department declined to comment on the matter. Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and Thune’s office for comment.
However, a senior GOP aide noted to Fox News Digital that it’s not entirely up to the South Dakota Republican to appoint legal counsel to represent the Senate. Instead, that falls onto the Senate Joint Leadership Group, which includes Thune, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and the president pro-tempore of the Senate, Schumer, and the chairs and ranking members of the Senate Judiciary and, in this case, the Homeland Security committees.
That committee would have to approve legal counsel…
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