Senate Democrats are clinging to Epstein’s money as they urge the Trump administration to release the dead pedophile’s papers

Senate Democrats remain wedded to tainted politics Jeffrey Epstein Cash even while the Trump administration looked the other way about their release Files on a notorious pedophile financier.

Epstein made a series of campaign contributions to prominent candidates while traveling in powerful social circles that included financial and political elites.

Most were Democrats, and many of the recipients returned the money or made matching donations to charities after his shocking arrest on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, now chaired by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), took a different tack – keeping $59,000 in Epstein contributions raised through a series of donations between 1994 and 2000.

The largest checks were for $20,000 in 1999 and $25,000 in 2000, according to Federal Election Commission records. reveals. At the time, the group was run by New Jersey State Senator Robert Torricelli (D.N.J.), who later resigned from the Senate in 2002 amid corruption allegations.

Likewise, the Democratic National Committee kept $32,000 in Epstein’s contributions.

Don Fowler, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, scoffed at the idea of ​​returning the money in 2019, saying CNBC: “Go back and give the money he gave 20 years ago? Are you crazy? That’s my answer to that.”

Six years later, the Epstein saga is still a huge news story — and Democrats are intimidating the Justice Department into releasing it Epstein Files.

In September, with President Trump under fire over the Epstein saga Amid internal turmoilthe Senate voted to cancel the procedural step taken by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-New York) to release the files.

“There has been so much lying, obfuscation and cover-up — the American people need to see everything that is in the Epstein dossier,” Schumer said. The DSCC piled on in September, accusing Republican senators who voted to kill the effort “Siding with the rich and powerful.”

House Democrats are also turning up the heat — with House Speaker Mike Johnson refusing to swear in newly elected Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) during a government shutdown. The freshman lawmaker says she will sign a petition to force a vote on the Epstein files, giving the effort the required 218 votes.

Gillibrand’s office and DSCC did not respond to a request for comment.