Gabe Evans Epstein Files Lies Colorado

Gabe Evans Told a Radio Host the Epstein Files 'Have Been Released.' The Justice Department Has Put Out About Half.

Asked on a Colorado MAGA radio show whether the Epstein files should be released, Rep. Gabe Evans said they already had been. Roughly half have. Evans never signed either petition to force the files out, and he isn't on the one that reached 218 this fall.

MAGA Report Cards · Nov 02, 2026

Gabe Evans Told a Radio Host the Epstein Files 'Have Been Released.' The Justice Department Has Put Out About Half.

On October 22, a conservative radio host in Colorado gave Gabe Evans an easy opening. Listeners kept asking him about the Epstein files, said Jay Dee of KHNC's Swamp Fight — should they be released, and was Evans backing the people trying to block them?

"They have been released," Evans shot back, the Colorado Times Recorder reported.

That isn't true.

What Evans said

Evans, the Republican who represents Colorado's 8th District north of Denver, went on to say the House passed a bill "with only one dissenting vote that released all of the Epstein files." The only exception, he said, was material tied to cases still under investigation.

Part of that is right. In November 2025, the House passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act 427 to 1. The one "no" was Louisiana's Clay Higgins, as we've reported. Trump signed it.

But a bill ordering the files out is not the same thing as the files coming out. The Justice Department has released about half of what that law required — and much of it heavily redacted, the Times Recorder noted, citing CBS News reporting from July.

That is why Congress is fighting over a second bill at all.

Where Evans was when it counted

The vote Evans now leans on only happened because Republican leaders were forced into it. For months, House GOP leadership blocked a vote, and Rep. Thomas Massie circulated a discharge petition — a way for a majority of members to force a bill to the floor over the Speaker's objection.

Evans didn't sign it, according to the Times Recorder. He also voted with fellow Republicans for an amendment, which failed, that would have delayed releasing the files. He voted for the final bill only once the petition had already forced the vote.

That is the same move other swing-district Republicans have tried to campaign on. Iowa's Ashley Hinson ran an ad saying she voted to release the files, and X added a note pointing out that she only did after the petition she wouldn't sign forced the vote.

And again this fall

When the Justice Department kept withholding files, Massie and California Democrat Ro Khanna introduced a follow-up: the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, which would let victims, lawmakers and states sue the Justice Department for hiding Epstein records. It stalled in committee, so they started a second discharge petition.

In September it reached commitments from 218 members, The Washington Sun reported: every Democrat and four Republicans — Massie, Nancy Mace, Ralph Norman and Brian Fitzpatrick.

Gabe Evans is not one of the four. He hasn't joined the new petition, the Times Recorder reported.

So when a supporter asks Evans whether he backs the people blocking the files, the honest answer is that he has signed neither of the petitions to force them out. Instead, he told a radio audience the job was already done.

What the record shows

On October 22, 2026, Rep. Gabe Evans told a Colorado radio audience that the Epstein files "have been released" and that the House had passed a bill that "released all of the Epstein files." The Justice Department has released only about half of what the 2025 law required. Evans did not sign the 2025 petition that forced that vote, and he is not among the four Republicans who signed this fall's petition to force the rest out.