Watch: James Comer Exposes Hakeem Jeffries' Connection to Epstein on House Floor

For a brief moment, Republicans and Democrats on the House Oversight Committee seem to agree on one thing: as Rep. James Comer of Kentucky put it, “sunshine is the best disinfectant.” The agreement ends there. Comer wants full transparency surrounding everyone who operated in the shadowy orbit of the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Democrats, meanwhile, appear focused on shining their flashlight exclusively at President Donald Trump — and nowhere else.

In a Tuesday floor speech, Comer pointed out that Epstein’s emails reveal a web of contacts with prominent Democrats, including exchanges that appear to have helped Epstein gain early access to a rising political figure who is now the House minority leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.

Comer blasted Democrats for manipulating the public narrative: over the past week, he said, “Democrats resorted to selective leaks and doctored documents to mislead the American people” while “Oversight Committee Republicans have posted 65,000 pages of documents we have received to date; Democrats, by contrast, have released fewer than one dozen.”

Democrats’ most recent stunt was particularly brazen. Out of 23,000 pages from Epstein’s estate, they released just three — and even then, they redacted two of them in ways that changed “both the context and the meaning” of what they presented. The curated leak included an email implying President Trump had spent time with a redacted Epstein victim. It was later confirmed the woman was the late Virginia Giuffre, who had already stated publicly that Trump engaged in no inappropriate behavior of any kind.

“And, unsurprisingly, Democrats have been silent about their colleagues’ coordination with Epstein,” Comer said.

One newly uncovered email reveals that Democratic fundraisers sought Epstein’s involvement in a 2013 event featuring Hakeem Jeffries, then an up-and-coming congressman trying to help Democrats retake the House. “So Hakeem Jeffries’ campaign solicited money from Jeffrey Epstein. That’s what we found in the latest document batch,” Comer added.

Social media users quickly highlighted a May 2013 message from Democratic fundraiser Lisa Rossi, who wrote to Epstein that she was “thrilled to announce that we are working with Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, one of the rising stars in the New York Congressional delegation,” referring to him at the time as “Brooklyn’s Barack.” Ironically, “Temu Obama” might be the more fitting nickname today.

Rossi even extended an invitation to involve Epstein personally, offering a phone number “if you would like to get involved with” an upcoming Jeffries dinner “or would like to get an opportunity to get to know Hakeem better. He is an impressive guy and who will be [sic] a progressive voice in New York politics for years to come.”

Comer’s point was clear: while Democrats insist on dragging Trump into anything remotely tied to Epstein, they remain conspicuously silent about their own party’s intersections with the disgraced financier. And the more documents get released, the more selective silence becomes impossible to ignore.

Despite Democrats’ theatrics, none of the revelations fundamentally change what Americans already knew: Epstein embedded himself among powerful figures by dispensing large sums of money and cultivating influence across the political spectrum. But the timing of the Democrats’ sudden obsession is obvious. After failing in their shutdown gambits and other political plays, they’ve returned to a familiar strategy — trying to smear President Trump through guilt-by-association narratives that fall apart under scrutiny.

What Democrats didn’t calculate was collateral damage. The Clinton network, former officials like Larry Summers, and now Jeffries and his political benefactors are all caught in the same web. And while Trump long ago cut ties with Epstein — reportedly after objecting to Epstein’s predatory behavior — Democrats spent years happily accepting his cash and access.

If Democrats want depositions, Comer suggests they start with Jeffries. Fair is fair. But on that point, Capitol Hill’s progressive warriors suddenly have nothing to say.