House Judiciary Committee Democrats released an unsigned staff report Monday laying out what they call “the case against Donald Trump emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ’s desperate efforts to cover it up.” Issued eight days before the election, the report runs more than 50 pages and presents multiple allegations that remain uncorroborated.

Democrats are calling for an independent special counsel to investigate the president, Attorney General Todd Blanche’s alleged conflicts of interest, and the Justice Department’s reluctance to provide relevant evidence to state and foreign law enforcement. The report also examines discrepancies between Trump’s statements and documentary records.

“The women who survived Epstein deserve to be heard,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement. “Congress must have the complete files required by law, and an independent special counsel must investigate Epstein’s co-conspirators and DOJ’s cover-up and ensure that state and foreign prosecutors have the evidence they need to pursue justice.”

The report alleges that Trump was “an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of young women in the mid-to-late 1990s.” It includes at least one entirely new allegation against the president but provides no direct evidence for that claim beyond the woman’s conversations with Judiciary Committee staff.

Trump has denied for years that he engaged in sexual misconduct with any woman connected to Epstein. He has also said he knew nothing about Epstein’s crimes, while the Democratic staff report repeats several other longstanding and unsubstantiated allegations against him.

A Democratic Judiciary Committee source told MS NOW that the report relies on publicly available accounts and conversations with survivors. The source declined to provide more details or quantify the number of survivor conversations, citing privacy concerns.

The report compares Trump’s statements about Epstein in recent years with emails, deposition transcripts, previous public statements, drawings and signatures. Democrats highlight what they describe as inconsistencies involving Trump’s awareness of Epstein’s crimes.

The report also contends that DOJ officials, including the attorney general, are “doing everything they can to keep the American people in the dark” about Trump’s alleged participation in Epstein’s abuse. “Attorney General Blanche may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice while acting on a mission to protect Trump,” it alleges.

Democrats argue that Blanche’s meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell “potentially constituted witness tampering and obstruction of an official proceeding.” The report focuses partly on what it calls Blanche’s apparent instructions against discussing a specific Epstein victim and how that victim could implicate Trump.

The report says such instructions “could easily run afoul of 18 U.S.C. § 1512, which forbids hindering or delaying the communication of information relating to the potential commission of a federal offense to a law enforcement officer, as well as corruptly influencing the testimony of any person in an official proceeding — such as a congressional interview and investigation.”

A Justice Department spokesperson dismissed the report as “nothing more than a last-ditch effort by House Judiciary Democrats to mislead the public.” The spokesperson said DOJ complied with the Epstein Files Transparency Act and made nearly 3 million documents connected to Epstein publicly available.

“The Department also freely offered members of Congress the opportunity to view the files unredacted. All these files were part of FBI investigations that spanned decades and these claims were investigated by agents at the time,” the spokesperson said.

The spokesperson added that officials could not discuss the existence of any ongoing investigations and said the Trump administration prosecuted Epstein and Maxwell and made the documents public. The department’s response did not quiet the report’s accusations over withheld material.

In June, a federal judge found that Blanche had effectively conceded DOJ was violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act by failing to produce certain unredacted and foreign language documents, among other issues. DOJ is appealing that ruling.

Blanche has rejected suggestions that the Justice Department withheld documents that should have been released. He said DOJ “undertook a Herculean task to review millions and millions of potentially responsive files” and fulfilled its review and production obligations “expeditiously.”

White House spokesperson Lauren Bis told MS NOW that “none of these allegations are true.” She called the report a desperate Democratic distraction and said Trump removed Epstein from Mar-a-Lago because he was a creep.

Only Democratic staff authored the report, and the Judiciary Committee has not been the principal congressional committee investigating Epstein’s crimes and whether others participated in or enabled his abuse. The House Oversight Committee has interviewed former Epstein employees, a survivor and alleged accomplices while examining who participated in, funded or enabled the operation.