Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) is brushing aside claims that President Trump has had a sincere change of heart on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Rep. Cockett told journalist Ashlee Banks that the president’s sudden endorsement of transparency is nothing more than a political maneuver designed to shield himself.
“I don’t think there’s a change of direction,” Crockett said in the Tuesday interview. “They finally came up with whatever their scheme is going to be to make sure he is quote-unquote protected from all of his dirtiest secrets being revealed.”
Her blunt assessment comes as Congress prepares to vote on whether to release the long-sealed Epstein records — a vote Trump had fiercely resisted until his shocking reversal over the weekend. The president has framed his new stance as proof he has “nothing to hide,” but his U-turn has rattled Washington and deepened speculation about what may be contained in the files.
We Knew Exactly Who He Was
Crockett, who has made a name for herself as one of the House’s most unfiltered voices, said the idea that Trump is suddenly embracing transparency is laughable.
“We know he’s a nasty individual. We know he’s a creep,” she said. “We had the Access Hollywood tape. We had the lawsuits where he and Jeffrey Epstein were named together as rapists.”
She blamed Trump’s enduring support not on the absence of evidence, but on the refusal of his base to acknowledge it.
“It’s amazing how people can make up stories about folks they don’t like and ignore the truth about people they do like,” Crockett said. “And I don’t even understand why they like him so much — because he clearly doesn’t like them.”
The congresswoman pointed to last month’s EBT system outage, which left 42 million Americans temporarily unable to access food assistance.
“Some of those people had to be MAGA,” she said. “He didn’t care.”
A President on Shaky Ground
Trump’s about-face on the Epstein files comes at a politically perilous moment. His second term — once defined by absolute control over the Republican Party — has hit turbulence:
- Republicans were crushed in recent elections, raising fears of losing the House or Senate next year.
- The Supreme Court appears ready to gut Trump’s tariff regime, the centerpiece of his economic policy.
- A trove of 20,000 pages of Epstein-related records released last week intensified questions about Trump’s long-standing relationship with the late financier.
Insiders say Trump’s push to release the files may be a defensive gambit — an effort to seize the narrative rather than be consumed by it.
But Crockett isn’t buying it.
“People need to get back to prioritizing themselves and their families and their future,” she said. “Instead of being dragged to hell by this dude who obviously has them in a cult.”
A Vote That Could Reshape 2025
If Congress votes to release the full Epstein archive, it would be the most sweeping disclosure yet of the circles of power — political, financial, and cultural — that surrounded him.
Whether Trump is as unthreatened as he claims remains an open question. What’s clear is that his grip on the narrative, and on his own party, is loosening.
