For immediate release — Dec 18, 2025
Contact: Keira Havens, press@citizensimpeachment.com
Trump is repeating Nixon’s crimes. Epstein is his Watergate.
In an effort to avoid personal embarrassment and reputational harm, President Donald J. Trump has followed directly in the footsteps of Richard Nixon and attempted to suppress the release of the Epstein Files. On December 16, 2025, grassroots organization Citizens’ Impeachment presented members of Congress with an article of impeachment for Trump’s Obstruction of Justice, based on the articles drafted for Richard Nixon in the wake of Watergate.
On December 19th, the U.S. Department of Justice is required by federal law to release the Epstein Files. The agency is explicitly prohibited from withholding, delaying, or redacting the information due to embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity. However, early concerns about the Trump administration’s unwillingness to release the files given the president’s close relationship with Jeffery Epstein reignited in November when Trump demanded a new investigation into Epstein’s associates.
Regardless of what the Trump administration releases on Friday, the President has already taken aggressive steps to obscure his involvement with Epstein, despite a decades-long friendship with the man. Trump has spent $850,000 to pay for 3,000 hours of overtime for 1,000 federal agents in an effort to identify which of those 300GB of files contain his name. He misused the DoJ to solicit testimony from Ghislane Maxwell, who was tried and convicted of both procuring and sexually abusing children with and for Jeffrey Epstein — and then immediately transferred her to a minimum security prison. He has behaved as though he is above the law, demanding testimony from sealed records in what a judge has called a “diversion.” And of course, Trump has repeatedly, and falsely, claimed that Epstein’s sexual abuse of children is a “fake narrative.”
It is not a hoax. Donald Trump and his enablers have amassed hundreds of documented violations of constitutional and international statutes in 2025, but his decades-long association with one of the most notorious sexual abusers of our time is unique in unifying the public and Congress. However, while the depths of Trump’s relationship has yet to be explored, the cover-up has been conducted in plain sight of the public and the media.
It wasn’t the crime that lost Richard Nixon the Presidency. It was his failed cover-up of the Watergate break-ins, coordinated by the White House and financed with campaign money, that made it impossible to stay in office. It appears that the same may be true of Trump and Epstein.