Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) made a stunning accusation against President Donald Trump’s handling of convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein’s case files, claiming he is already destroying the evidence.
“We may still be talking about it come September, when we come back into session, but to go from ‘it’s on my desk’ to ‘it doesn’t exist,’ they may be engaging in destroying evidence. We know that he’s not above that,” Crockett said in a clip teasing a full interview with internet personality Russell Ellis, known online as the Jolly Good Ginger.
Crockett’s claim follows a decision by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to shut the House down on Tuesday for a five-week recess until September to block a bipartisan effort to force a vote on releasing files related to Epstein.
Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi have come under fire in recent days for their handling of Epstein’s sexual abuse case files after a Department of Justice and FBI memo stating that the disgraced financier’s 2019 death behind bars was definitively a suicide, and that he was not in possession of a “client list.” In February, Bondi had claimed that such a list was “sitting on” her desk.
The memo enraged Trump’s MAGA fanbase, many of whom have turned on the president. News outlets subsequently began to dig deeper on his past relationship with Epstein, fueling greater speculation of a cover-up.
Speaking to Ellis in the short clip, Crockett recalled the FBI raiding Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022 to uncover classified documents. The president’s indictment over the classified documents was dismissed last year, but Crockett accused the president of destroying evidence in that case as well.
“Everybody remembers all of the secret documents that he decided to hoard down in his bathroom, that funky little stage in Mar-a-Lago, right? What did he do? He decided he wanted to engage in destroying evidence,” Crockett said.
The Trump administration attempted to show transparency by calling on federal courts to release all “pertinent” grand jury transcripts in Epstein’s criminal cases, but the request was denied. The administration is also reaching out to Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving 20 years in prison.
“‘Buy us a month, we’ll destroy everything, and then we can go ahead and release it.’” Crockett said, mocking the president. “I mean, the fact that they now want to, all of a sudden, talk to the former co-defendant who is serving approximately 20 years in prison. Yeah, none of this seems fishy at all.”
