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BREAKING: White House Using Threats to Bury Epstein Files

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller and Joe Perticone break down new twists in the Epstein files cover-up. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) are leading a bipartisan push to force a vote to release the Epstein files, but the White House is allegedly pressuring Republicans to block it, calling support for transparency a “hostile act.” With accusers set to appear at a press conference, this episode exposes the political chess match behind one of America’s darkest scandals.

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0:00.0

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0:25.4

Republican Thomas Massey of Kentucky is doing the rounds tonight ahead of their Wednesday

0:31.3

morning press conference that he's doing with, who's he doing it with Joe?

0:36.3

Rocana. Rocana. I'm in Rocana. How could I forget you, Rocana?

0:39.8

A podcast legend.

0:41.5

And they got a press conference far with Epstein's accusers.

0:45.0

Thomas Massey is making the rounds tonight.

0:47.0

And the accusation that he made that really jumped out to me.

0:51.6

I don't want to talk to you about Joe was the fact that the White House is actively whipping Republican members to vote against their petition to, you know, basically force the government to release the Upstude file. So that is, I think, a pretty big development in the cover-up.

1:11.5

And I wanted to get more from our Man on the Hill Joe Pertico.

1:14.4

So Joe, expand on that for people.

1:18.7

Did I basically cover the state of play there?

1:21.1

Yeah.

1:21.5

So everyone knew this was coming.

1:24.5

Massey and Kana announced this like weeks ago.

1:29.3

They were like day one when we're back, technically day two, because it'll be tomorrow. We're going to have this big press

1:33.9

conference. We're going to have the accusers. We're going to unveil our discharge petition,

1:37.4

which is a process by which as long as there's 218 people, Democrats or Republicans, they can

1:43.3

force a vote, even if Mike Johnson

1:45.9

doesn't want it. Mike Johnson's tried to misdirect on that. First, he canceled votes and said,

1:52.2

get out of here. Don't come back for six weeks. First day back today, he says, we're going to vote on a

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