‘The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program’: Hakeem Jeffries done with civility, calls out Epstein cover-up

Sometimes you have to say it like you see it. Hakeem Jeffries, leader of the House Democratic Caucus, has clearly had enough of the Trump administration stretching out the government shutdown and refusing to swear in the newly elected Arizona congresswoman Adelita Grijalva.

Grijalva won election to the House of Representatives on Sept. 30, 2025, but Speaker Mike Johnson has dragged his feet on swearing her in. As Grigalva was elected in a special election, she only has a 15-month term in office until the 2026 midterms, so has already had a fifteenth of her term completely wasted.

That delay has raised eyebrows, as Grijalva would cast the deciding vote to force a House floor vote on releasing the Epstein files. Now Jeffries is done walking on eggshells over this:

Jeffries: "The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program. That's the reason they refuse to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva." pic.twitter.com/NfhC01FjpC

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 3, 2025

“The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program. That’s what they’ve been doing. That’s the reason they refuse to swear in Represenativie-elect Adelita Grijalva. For weeks now she’s been elected. She was elected in late September, decisively and Represenativie-elect Adelita Grijalva still hasn’t been sworn in because she’ll become the 218th vote on an up or down piece of legislation that will require the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files.

Coincidence or cover-up?

Johnson insists this is all a crazy coincidence, saying he absolutely for sure won’t obstruct the petition once signatures are complete. But nobody can argue that Grijalva’s signature wouldn’t be a huge headache for the Trump administration. Not only would this trigger a mandatory vote that’d give MAGA Republicans a tough choice, but it’d drag Trump’s Epstein links back into the headlines.

Even if the bill passes the House, it would face Senate hurdles, and there’s no guarantee the Epstein files would actually be released. But it would crank up the pressure on Republicans who spent years saying the truth about his crimes must be exposed, only for them to suddenly decide it’s actually no big deal after Trump’s involvement became apparent.

Trump himself must be desperate to squash this story. Whenever it rears its ugly head it presents MAGA with a conundrum. For years, they’ve decried pedophiles in positions of power protecting their interests at the expense of innocent children.

MAGA assumed the target of their rage would be Democrats – and some of them are – but it seems the biggest name exposed for his close links to the world’s most notorious pedophile is none other than their grinning messiah. Will they stick by their convictions or collapse like a house of cards and obediently believe Trump’s increasingly flimsy excuses?