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Internal GOP Memo Blows Democrats’ Trump-Epstein Narrative Out of the Water [WATCH]

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Oversight Committee Republicans are accusing Democrats on the panel of using the House’s ongoing investigation into Jeffrey Epstein to target President Donald Trump rather than focus on the victims of Epstein’s crimes.

The claims were detailed [1] in a 10-page internal memo obtained by Fox News Digital and written by GOP staff for committee members.

The memo stated, “Unfortunately, during this investigation, Oversight Committee Democrats, led by Ranking Member Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), have intentionally mischaracterized witness testimony and selectively released information with targeted redactions in an effort to create another hoax involving President Trump.”

It added that when Republicans released the full set of documents, Democrats claimed the transparency was intended to “disorient” and “distract” from what the GOP described as a false narrative aimed at Trump.

The investigation began as a bipartisan push for full disclosure of federal records tied to Epstein.

In recent months, however, the probe has broken down along party lines, with each side accusing the other of political maneuvering.

Democrats have suggested Republicans are using the investigation to shield Trump, who had known Epstein decades ago but has never been tied to criminal activity.

Republicans have rejected that claim and argued that Democrats are using selective information releases to imply wrongdoing where none exists.

According to the memo, “The Democrats have uncovered nothing new, have released no document not provided at the request of Republicans, and have only succeeded in reinforcing what the American people already knew: President Trump knew Jeffrey Epstein decades ago, President Trump ended the relationship with Epstein, and President Trump did not participate or know about the nature of Epstein’s evil.”

The memo continued, “Committee Democrats have overpromised and underdelivered, and now they paw through every new document production looking for a single term: Trump.”

Documents released by the committee so far have not established evidence that Trump was aware of Epstein’s crimes.

The memo highlighted former Attorney General Bill Barr’s deposition, in which Barr appeared to clear Trump of wrongdoing concerning his knowledge of the case.

Republicans accused Garcia of misrepresenting Barr’s testimony by suggesting the former attorney general had “limited knowledge” of the matter.

The memo also accused Democrats of “selectively leaking” three emails earlier this month from among roughly 23,000 documents obtained from the Epstein estate. According to Republicans, Democrats inserted redactions “to deceive the media and American people,” including the name of Virginia Giuffre, who “stated that she never witnessed wrongdoing by President Trump.”

The memo further argued that Democrats removed additional context in another email referencing Giuffre.

It stated, “Democrats also redacted ‘she was the one that accused prince andrew’ [sic] in another Epstein email. By making this redaction, Democrats took away important context in the email that named Virginia Guiffre [sic], who worked at Mar-a-Lago, made allegations against Prince Andrew, and was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell in the parking lot.”

According to the memo, restoring the redacted line changed the context of an email in which Epstein wrote, “of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”

Republicans further pointed to Democrats releasing pages from Epstein’s “birthday book” that mentioned Trump but did not release a purported message from former President Bill Clinton.

They also asserted that Democrats have not assisted with efforts to bring in Clinton or Hillary Clinton for questioning, despite subpoenas issued earlier this year.

So far, only figures connected to Trump have testified.

“Democrats are not concerned with transparency or justice,” the memo said.

“The evidence the Oversight Committee has gathered does not implicate President Trump in any way. Democrats must stop playing games in this investigation.”

The memo, dated Sunday, comes two days before the House is scheduled to vote on a bipartisan bill requiring the Department of Justice to release all federal Epstein files.

GOP leadership had previously opposed the bill over concerns that releasing certain information could harm victims and because they argued the Oversight Committee’s investigation already addressed transparency.

However, lawmakers from both parties used a discharge petition led by Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Ro Khanna of California to force the bill to a vote.

President Trump publicly urged House Republicans to support the measure, writing on Truth Social on Sunday night, “We have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax.”