Few Americans are glad with the quantity of proof launched within the Jeffrey Epstein case, a NCS poll carried out by SSRS finds, with most saying they consider the government is intentionally holding back info.
The poll was carried out rather less than a month after the December 19 deadline that Congress gave the Justice Department to launch all of its files about Epstein.
The Justice Department estimated earlier in January that it had launched lower than 1% of its Epstein-related files. Department officers informed a courtroom Friday that they had enlisted roughly 80 extra attorneys from the division’s legal division to work with prosecutors in New York’s Southern District to overview paperwork associated the convicted intercourse offender.
A two-thirds majority of Americans say the federal government is intentionally holding back some details about the Epstein case that ought to be launched, whereas simply 16% say the government is making an effort to launch all info doable. The the rest say they haven’t heard sufficient concerning the case to say.
Nearly 9 in 10 Democrats and 72% of independents say the government is intentionally withholding info, as do 42% of Republicans.
Only about one-third of Republicans think the government is making an effort to launch info, with the remaining not weighing in both manner.
Just 6% of Americans say they’re glad with what the federal government has launched to date, little modified from 3% in a July 2025 survey. A 49% plurality say they’re dissatisfied, with the rest saying that it doesn’t matter to them or that they haven’t heard sufficient to say.
Just 12% of Republicans, 3% of Democrats and three% of independents say they’re glad with the data launched. But partisan considerations have shifted as President Donald Trump, who pushed Republicans to not vote for the invoice establishing the December 19 deadline and rejected the files as a Democratic “hoax.”
Republicans have grown likelier to dismiss the relevance of the quantity of data launched. A 67% majority say that it doesn’t matter or that they haven’t heard sufficient to say, up from 56% final summer time. And 21% now say they’re dissatisfied, down from 40%.
Democrats, in the meantime, have moved in the wrong way: Seventy-one p.c name themselves dissatisfied, up from 56% in July, whereas the share who don’t supply an opinion is 27%, down from 41%. Views amongst independents have barely shifted over that point, with 54% saying they’re dissatisfied and 43% providing no opinion.