'Hell No': Representative Dave Min on Whether the DOJ can be Trusted to Follow the Law Regarding Epstein Files Release

December 19, 2025 Press Release Rep. Min: “We are going to keep fighting for full transparency and disclosure” Washington, D.C. — Today, on CNN’s News Central , Representative Dave Min (CA-47), member of the House Oversight Committee and former SEC Enforcement attorney, demanded justice for the survivors of Epstein’s abuse and the full release of the Epstein files from the Justice Department. The DOJ is legally required to release the full Epstein files today, but Rep. Min expressed skepticism, noting Attorney General Pam Bondi and her senior lawyers at the DOJ have “developed a well-earned reputation for breaking the law.” Image WATCH REP. MIN ON CNN HERE On if the DOJ Attempts to Withhold the Release of the Files “We are going to keep fighting for full transparency and disclosure. The survivors deserve that. The American people deserve that. And look, the problem with this Department of Justice and Attorney General Pam Bondi, is that they have now developed a well-earned reputation for breaking the law, for ignoring laws and norms, because of their repeated and flagrant just disregard for the rule of law, including our subpoena earlier this year, but so many other issues that have popped up over the course of the last 11 months. So I hope they do the right thing. I hope they release every responsive document. But are we going to trust them at their word? At this point? I'd say hell no. We have a job to do, and that is to find justice for the survivors. On the “Smoking Gun” in the Epstein Files “I think the smoking gun, as the lead prosecutor, Marie Villafaña described it. She described this literally as the smoking gun that would break the case wide open is the computer files. The computer records. Video evidence. We know that Epstein liked to record everything, who was coming in and out of his estates. Apparently, he had cameras in every bedroom and in every room in his homes. That had a lot of potentially incriminating evidence, that maybe he was keeping. And so we need to see that. Apparently the DOJ has that, they have not produced it to anybody. But, that is one of the things that we really need to see. But there's really terabytes of information that they're holding on to that they have not released to date. On the Photos Released by the Oversight Committee Earlier this Week: “I think what these documents show is, again, the wide scope of Epstein's ring like this, how many influential, rich and powerful people were in his orbit, and also how disgusting this was.” ###