Top Oversight Democrat says Merrick Garland should testify on Epstein

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22. There is certainly grounds for criticizing Garland for his slow prosecution of Trump, but not for this.

Garland didn't want to comment on Epstein because it could endanger the conviction, which was on appeal. Trump is constantly commenting on ongoing criminal litigation, like the lawless idiot that he is, and it has indeed hurt the prosecutors in those cases. Trump's hateful language about the defendants created evidence of selective prosecution, giving grounds for dismissal, as happened with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

To bang this drum that Democrats could have brought up what's in the Epstein files during Biden’s administration, but didn’t, plays into the Trump/Republican narrative that Democrats are only bringing it up now for political reasons. That fact is, the Epstein files were the subject of ongoing investigations until July of 2025 when Bondi announced closure of all pending Epstein related investigations, and issued a memo announcing that no further investigations or disclosures were warranted. https://www.npr.org/2025/07/07/g-s1-76367/doj-jeffrey-epstein-memo#:~:text=Bondi%20has%20long%20promised%20to,let%20her%20speak%20for%20that.%22