By Carl Gibson
The widening rift between President Donald Trump and the MAGA base over convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is now embroiling the House Republican Conference.
That’s according to a Tuesday post by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who announced on the social media platform X that he was introducing a so-called “discharge petition” in the House of Representatives. If successful, the measure would force House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to hold a public vote on whether to compel the Department of Justice to release all of the information it has on the Epstein case, which has become a lightning rod for Republican politics in recent years.
“We all deserve to know what鈥檚 in the Epstein files, who鈥檚 implicated, and how deep this corruption goes. Americans were promised justice and transparency,” Massie tweeted.
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In a follow-up post, Massie wrote that a discharge petition “is a procedural tool for bypassing leadership” on