Republicans eye efforts to quiet Epstein uproar but can’t quash it

House Republicans who were at odds all week over the Trump administration’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein disclosures are holding their breaths to see if the tsunami of criticism from their base over the matter is finally subsiding.

GOP members on the House Rules Committee voted in favor of a resolution directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to release more materials relating to the late wealthy and connected sex offender. President Trump relented and directed Bondi to request grand jury testimony from the Epstein case be unsealed. And Republicans are banding together to dismiss and criticize the Wall Street Journal’s report about a “bawdy” birthday letter Trump sent more than two decades ago.