Trump Now Likely to Be Forced to Release the Epstein Files

3 September 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

On September 2nd I headlined “1 Republican and 6 Democrats in House Try to force Trump to Release Epstein Records”, but in the past 24 hours that has already become 3 Republicans and 203 Democrats.

The Democratic Party propaganda-news-medium National Public Radio (NPR) headlines today (September 3rd) “Epstein survivors join with lawmakers in calling for full release of government files” and pretends that this was “an effort led by Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif. and Thomas Massie, R-Ky., to force a House vote that would require the Justice Department to release its records in full, with redactions to protect information about victims and ongoing investigations,” though, actually, the only “Sponser” and author of the Petition was the Republican Thomas Massie, and the Democrat Ro Khanna wasn’t even listed among the six Democrats who were included yesterday as joining in to support it: he became the 54th Representative to sign it — hardly a “leader” in it — he just wanted to get onto what by then had clearly become a winning bandwagon (especially for Democrats).

It’s lying like this (sometimes blatant like this) by Democratic Party ‘news’-media, that is driving more and more Democratic Party registered voters to reregister as being Independent, because they increasingly recognize that — just like Republican Party voters have been routinely deceived to support the Republican Party — Democratic Party voters have been routinely deceived to support the Democratic Party.

On 12 January 2024, Gallup headlined “Independent Party ID Tied for High; Democratic ID at New Low” and reported that whereas Democratic Party support has been declining rather steadily ever since Obama entered the White House in 2008, and Republican Party support had plunged sharply to new lows during GW Bush’s second term 2004-2008, Independents — which when Obama entered the White House in 2008 were tied with Democrats, and the Republican Party was deeply unpopular because of Bush — rose from 35% of the electorate in 2009 to 43% in 2014 and repeated that all-time high of 43% again in 2022, and repeated it yet again in Gallup’s next, which poll was in 2024 (but reported by them in 2025): yet again 43%. So: in 2024, 28% were Republicans, 28% were Democrats, and 43% were Independents, according to the 2025 Gallup news-report about Americans’ political self-identifications.

In other words: whereas a high of 34% were Republicans in 2004, and a high of 36% were Democrats in 2008, now both parties are at 28%, while Independents are stable at 43%, which is way higher than EITHER Party has ever achieved since Gallup started polling this matter in 1988.

Right now, the trend is ESPECIALLY endangering the Democratic Party. On August 20th, the Democratic Party’s New York Times headlined “The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis: The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box, a new analysis shows.” It opened:

The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to the polls.

Of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections — and often by a lot.

That four-year swing toward the Republicans adds up to 4.5 million voters, a deep political hole that could take years for Democrats to climb out from.

Change in share of registered voters, 2020-24 …

All told, Democrats lost about 2.1 million registered voters between the 2020 and 2024 elections in the 30 states, along with Washington, D.C., that allow people to register with a political party. (In the remaining 20 states, voters do not register with a political party.) Republicans gained 2.4 million.

It quoted Democratic office-holders saying that the solution needs to be the Democratic Party’s policies moving even farther to the right, toward the super-rich and authoritarianism — that this slide is a result of the American public’s wanting to expand the military and armaments-production more, and to cut Social Security, education, health care, and aid to the poor. But actually, the data — which the NYT doesn’t even mention — proves the exact opposite. The billionaires want that Party to move rightward, but the American public, as shown in those polls, clearly want it to move leftward — and the NYT publishes the views of the billionaires’ agents (and ignores the relevant data: the polling-data on the public’s actual policy-priorities). So: that’s just yet more of the Democrtic Party’s ‘news’-propaganda media

Consequently: more and more voters now are Independent, and it has become the largest of the three categories. But there is no “Independent” Party. If one will form, then billionaires will donate to it, so that, like both of the existing Parties, it too will be receiving most of its money from the billionaires and will therefore serve the billionaires, just like both of the existing Parties do, and long have been doing.

The reason for this terminal corruption of the U.S. Government is that in an electoral ‘democracy’, all of the potentially winning Parties receive most of their money from the richest .01% of the richest .01% of the population, and therefore are dependent upon and therefore MUST serve them, regardless of the actual needs of the public.

The only way to solve this problem is to do away with selecting Government leaders by means of public elections by billionaires-deceived voters, and to replace it by lottery-democracies, in which all legislators — the individuals who WRITE the laws — will be selected by a purely random means, a lottery; and those legislators then will select from amongst themselves the head-of-state. (A Constitutional Amendment would be needed in order to do this.) I have described the system here. The documentation that it’s necessary is here.

In short: without this change, democracy is impossible to achieve, and what we today call “democracy” isn’t at all representing the policy-priorities of the public, but DOES represent the policy-priorities of billionaires — which are virtually the opposite of the public’s policy-priorities. It’s dictatorship by the billionaires. That is why we need this change. The world is getting worse — not better. It is moving even farther to the right. Do you want this for your children, and for theirs? If the answer is no, then we need a Constitutional Amendment. It is necessary.

Regardless which of the billionaires’ Parties will win, and which of them will lose, we’ll have a Government by and for the billionaires, not by and for us. That is the reality, as-of now.

We don’t have this bad Government by mere incompetency; we have it by design: it has been built into its design. Maybe the writers of our Constitution didn’t trust the public enough. Maybe they distrusted the public too much. But we need a Government that serves the public — NOT that serves only the richest .01% of the richest .01%, as we now have. This change is necessary.

Right now, we have a government that serves the richest .01% of the richest .01%. The Epstein affair is merely one of the innumerable examples of this.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.