WASHINGTON — House Judiciary Committee Democrats are calling for an independent special counsel to investigate evidence of President Donald Trump’s alleged criminal ties to Jeffrey Epstein, according to a new report made public Monday.
\n\n“The bottom line,” they wrote in the report, “There is more than sufficient evidence to launch a criminal investigation.”
\n\nThey acknowledged the Justice Department under Trump would be unlikely to appoint a special counsel, — such as Robert Mueller who ran the Russia investigation or Jack Smith, who led the investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
\n\nThe president has repeatedly denied any knowledge of, or involvement in, Epstein’s criminal activity and said he cut ties well before allegations of sex trafficking by the financier became public.
\n\n“None of these allegations are true. This ‘report’ is nothing more than a desperate attempt by crazed Democrats to distract Americans from the surging Republican momentum driven by President Trump’s historic achievements,” said Lauren Bis, a White House spokeswoman. “The President kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club at Mar-a-Lago because he was a creep.”
\n\nThe report comes on the brink of the midterm…
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