1. United States
2. Iowa
3. Letter

The Evidence Is in the Record. So Is Your Silence I am one of your constituents, and I am writing because I have been following the release of the Jeffrey Epstein federal files closely. What I have read has left me genuinely shaken — not only because of what the documents contain, but because of how little response I have seen from the people I elected to represent me. The evidence I am describing below does not come from tabloids, political opponents, or anonymous sources. It comes from FBI investigative memos, federal prosecutor emails, official flight logs, court subpoenas, and documents reviewed in person by sitting members of Congress. Some of your colleagues have stood at a podium on the House floor and read these documents aloud. I have read their statements. I have read the reporting from PBS NewsHour, NPR, the Associated Press, CNN, and Time Magazine. And I am struggling to understand why I have not heard from you. Here is what the record shows. Federal prosecutors documented in a 2020 email that President Trump flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet at least eight times between 1993 and 1996 — far more than was previously known. On one of those flights, the only three passengers were Trump, Epstein, and a 20-year-old woman whose name was redacted. On four others, Ghislaine Maxwell — Epstein’s convicted sex trafficking co-conspirator — was also on board. This directly contradicts Trump’s own 2024 public statement that “I was never on Epstein’s Plane.” That is not a matter of interpretation. It is a documented lie about his relationship with a child sex trafficker. There is more. Court documents in the released files describe a 14-year-old girl brought to Mar-a-Lago by Epstein in 1994. According to the sworn account, Epstein introduced her to Trump, elbowed him playfully, and said, “This is a good one, right?” Trump allegedly smiled and nodded. The child felt uncomfortable but was too young to understand why. FBI interview notes from 2021 confirm that Virginia Giuffre — one of Epstein’s most prominent survivors before her death last year — told investigators she was a teenage employee at Mar-a-Lago when she was recruited into Epstein’s trafficking network. A separate FBI memo from the same period includes a victim’s account of being “presented” to Trump by Maxwell at a party, in a manner described as structurally identical to how Maxwell groomed and introduced women to Epstein. The January 2026 release also includes an FBI form memorializing a complaint from a woman who alleged that Trump raped her when she was 13 years old. I understand that some of these documents contain unverified allegations. The Department of Justice has said as much. But the FBI formally documented these accounts. They exist in the official record. And the same administration now controlling what gets released — and what stays hidden — is the one most implicated by those records. That brings me to what may be the most troubling part of all of this. Rep. Jamie Raskin, after reviewing unredacted files at the DOJ’s satellite office, reported finding redactions with no legal basis whatsoever — including a passage in which Trump’s own attorney told Epstein’s lawyer that Epstein was never asked to leave Mar-a-Lago because he was a guest, not a member. That directly contradicts what the President has told the American public for years. Rep. Dan Goldman read that document aloud on the House floor in March 2026. It had been redacted from the public release. “If the attorney general is covering up this information,” Goldman said, “what else is she covering up?” The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi over this very question. And yet the DOJ has declared the file release closed, while Rep. Raskin and others report that an estimated 3 million additional documents remain withheld — out of a total the DOJ itself acknowledges may reach 6 million pages. I am not writing to ask you to convict the President. I am writing to ask you to do your job. The Epstein Files Transparency Act passed Congress nearly unanimously. It was the law. The administration has violated both its letter and its spirit. You have the tools — contempt authority, subpoena power, the budget process — to hold the executive branch accountable. Why are those tools not being used? Why has there been no demand for an independent investigation? Why have impeachment proceedings not been raised, when the documented record includes a president lying about his ties to a convicted child sex trafficker and an attorney general who appears to have shielded him from public scrutiny? The survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes have spent decades watching institutions fail them. A secret non-prosecution deal in 2006. A suspicious death in federal custody in 2019. And now an administration redacting the files that might finally bring some measure of accountability. These women deserved better from every institution they encountered. They deserve better from you now. I would welcome a response. I would genuinely like to understand your position on this. But if I do not hear from you, I will remember that — and so will the people around me.