House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is under fire from Democratic lawmakers, who accuse him of engaging in a calculated coverup in the Jeffrey Epstein case—one designed to protect Donald Trump and curry favor with the former president.
The Oversight Committee recently released over 33,000 pages of documents related to Epstein, which Comer had subpoenaed from the Department of Justice. But the timing and substance of the release are raising serious questions. Critics say the release was a smokescreen—mostly rehashing public material and deliberately dropped just before a critical vote.
“Welcome to the ‘Comer coverup,’” said Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL). “You know, I mean, we’ve been gone for six weeks, he just releases 30,000 pages the day before a vote. He could have released it, you know, over the last six weeks, but they waited just enough, they held these documents from the public, they held on to them so they could release them the day of the petition. Why don’t they want the petition to pass? What are they afraid of? What are they hiding?”
Moskowitz didn’t hold back, going straight for Comer’s credibility.
“This is a guy who took information from a Chinese informant, he lost an informant, he took Russian disinformation in his last investigation. So this is the ‘Comer coverup.’ I mean, look, he didn’t come up with this idea on his own – he’s not that bright – but he’s obviously executing the plan that the White House has come up for him.”
At the heart of the outrage is a discharge petition launched by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), aimed at forcing the full release of Epstein-related documents. Instead of supporting full transparency, critics argue Comer is playing games—offering just enough redacted material to check a box while still keeping sensitive connections under wraps.
“Comer actually is the one who gets to decide what to release, Comer is the one who gets to decide what to redact on his own, and so there is no transparency,” Moskowitz said.
“They want to say, ‘Oh, Democrats are now voting against it.’ They want to message that, right? They also want to say, ‘Look, all of our Republicans voted for full disclosure.’ It’s not true.”
And where are the hearings? The witnesses? The accountability?
“There are no hearings – where are the hearings?” Moskowitz asked. “Bring in the witnesses. He’s burying these depositions in the basement so nobody hears from any of these witnesses, and then he’s going to issue some report.”
According to Moskowitz, this isn’t about truth or justice—it’s about personal ambition.
“Comer lost the trust of the American people in his fake faux Biden impeachment scam, and now you got the ‘Comer coverup’ when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein. He’s doing the White House’s dirty work, looking for the president’s endorsement on his way to trying to become the governor of Kentucky.”
If that’s the strategy, Comer isn’t just dodging accountability—he’s allegedly running interference for a man whose name has repeatedly surfaced in connection with Epstein. The stakes aren’t just political—they’re about whether one of the darkest scandals in recent American history gets buried for good.
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