BREAKING NEWS: Congressmen Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie call for the judge overseeing Ghislaine’s Maxwell case to appoint a “Special Master” to force the release of the Epstein files because the Justice Department “cannot be trusted.”

This is an atomic bomb of bad news for Trump…

“As the leads of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, we have urgent and grave concerns about DOJ’s failure to comply with the Act as well as the Department’s violations of this Court’s order,” Khanna and Massie wrote in a letter to a letter to Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York.

They specifically requested a “Special Master and Independent Monitor” to compel Pam Bondi’s DOJ to make “mandatory production” under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

The congressmen slammed the Justice Department for releasing “only a portion of responsive materials” and stated that the release “did not comply with the statute as written.”

“The Department failed to meet the Act’s requirements in multiple respects, including missing the statutory deadline, asserting common-law privileges that the Act does not permit, and applying extensive redactions that appear inconsistent with the Act’s expressed prohibition on withholding or redacting records to protect politically exposed persons,” they continued.

They wrote that the DOJ has “continued to rely on arguments that courts have rejected” in order to justify their ongoing obfuscation and failure to abide by the clearly written law.

“Compliance concerns have been further heightened by the Department’s handling of records after their release,” Khanna and Massie continue. “Independent investigators identified numerous files that were publicly released on December 19, 2025, and later removed, including file EFTA00000468.

While removal may have been undertaken to protect victims depicted in the material, an objective that is both appropriate and required, the Department’s own statements underscore that this issue is more significant than DOJ has suggested.”

They went on to cite the DOJ’s own admission that “more than 2 million documents potentially responsive to the Act in various phases of review.” That number vastly outweighs the roughly 12,285 documents that have actually been released under the law.

“Other reports suggest that the DOJ may be reviewing more than 5 million pages,” the congressmen wrote. “Because these figures are self-reported and internally inconsistent with prior representations, there is reasonable suspicion that the DOJ has overstated the scope of responsive materials, thereby portraying compliance as unmanageable and effectively delaying disclosure.”

“The conduct by the DOJ is not only a flagrant violation of the mandatory disclosure obligations under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, but as this Court has recognized in its previous rulings, the behavior by the DOJ has caused serious trauma to survivors,” they continued.

“In addition, the DOJ has not complied with Section 3 of the Act, which requires the Attorney General, within fifteen days of the deadline for release, to submit a report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees identifying the categories of records released and withheld and summarizing all redactions and their legal bases,” they pointed out.

“To date, no such report has been provided. Without it, there is no authoritative accounting of what records exist, what has been withheld, or why, making effective oversight and judicial review far more difficult.”

“Put simply, the DOJ cannot be trusted with making mandatory disclosures under the Act,” they wrote bluntly.

“Absent an independent process, as outlined above, we do not believe the DOJ will produce the records that are required by the Act and what it has represented to this Court,” they added.

The judge must move immediately to appoint this Special Master. We know for a fact that Trump is all over the Epstein files and the American people have a right to know what kind of heinous abuse their pedophiliac president engaged in.

The Justice Department is obviously dragging their heels to shield the administration. Enough is enough. Release the files!