House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday went after President Trump and Republican leaders over the Jeffrey Epstein case, saying their refusal to press for the release of the government files on the convicted child sex offender is tantamount to protecting pedophiles.

Jeffries pointed specifically to Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) decision not to seat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D) as evidence of his charge. Grijalva won a special election in Arizona on Sept. 23 and is vowing to be the deciding signature on a discharge petition that would force the Justice Department to release the undisclosed Epstein documents — whenever she’s sworn in.

"The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol. “That's what they've been doing, and that's the reason why they refuse to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, for weeks now.”

Johnson has repeatedly rejected those accusations. He says the better strategy for getting to the bottom of Epstein’s associations is through the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which launched a probe months ago and has already released thousands of files from both........

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