Mississippi congressional Republicans decline to back release of Epstein files, call push a ‘political distraction’

Republican members of Mississippi’s congressional delegation have declined to call on the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein case files, labeling the push to unveil the information to the public a political distraction propagated by Democrats and opponents of President Trump.

In interviews with Mississippi Today at the U.S. Capitol last week, Reps. Mike Ezell and Trent Kelly, both former law enforcement officials, said those who committed crimes in relation to the Epstein case should be prosecuted. But they stopped short of calling for the Justice Department to release the tranche of case files from the sex trafficking investigation into Epstein, the late billionaire financier.

Epstein was accused of paying underage girls hundreds of dollars in cash for massages and then m