Some speculate that the public clash between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk may be more strategic than it appears.

Axios reports that House Democrats are pressing the Department of Justice and the FBI to determine whether President Trump is named in the Epstein files, as claimed by Elon Musk.

This situation highlights how Trump’s political adversaries are seizing on his high-profile rift with Musk, once seen as a close ally, for potential political advantage.

Online, some conservatives are floating the theory that Trump and Musk may have coordinated the feud to apply pressure for a full disclosure of the Epstein list. Now that Democrats are also pushing for the list’s release, some suspect it may be a calculated move to expose prominent Democrats. However, this remains only a theory circulated among some conservatives on social media.

Trump “is in the Epstein files,” Musk declared Thursday in a post on X, continuing, “That is the real reason they have not been made public.”

The Tesla CEO went further, calling for Trump’s impeachment—an action many Democrats have so far been reluctant to pursue.

In response, Reps. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, demanding they “immediately clarify whether this allegation is true.”

The lawmakers asked for a timeline on when the Department of Justice would declassify and release the Epstein records, and requested an explanation for the lack of new disclosures since February.

They also sought clarification on Trump’s potential involvement in reviewing the documents, a list of individuals responsible for overseeing the release process, and reasoning behind the “significant redactions” present in the information previously submitted to Congress.

Lynch currently serves as acting ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, while Garcia leads the Democratic side of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets.

“Oversight Democrats are engaged in another baseless stunt that bears no weight in fact or reality. These are the same left-wing lunatics who neglected their oversight duties regarding the Biden administration’s lawless actions and concocted hoax after hoax on President Trump during his first term. No one takes them or their petty letters seriously,” said White House spokesperson Harrison Fields in a statement to Axios.

Earlier this year, Bondi released over 100 pages of Epstein-related documents as part of the Trump administration’s push for more transparency in high-profile cases.

Yet the records were heavily redacted, prompting Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), chair of the declassification task force, to accuse Bondi of “stonewalling” her efforts to obtain more documents.

“We agree with their conclusion that the release of these documents is long overdue,” Lynch and Garcia stated.

According to the two Democrats, Musk’s claims “imply that the President may be involved in determining which files should be released and whether files will be withheld from the public if he personally chooses.”

They also pointed out that the relationship between Trump and Epstein is well-established.

“Any attempts to prevent the appropriate release of the Epstein files to shield the President from truth and accountability merits intense scrutiny by Congress and by the Department of Justice,” they wrote.

Meanwhile, last week FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino pledged to release more surveillance footage from the jail cell where convicted sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein died, claiming it would show “no one was there but him.”

Epstein’s death in 2019 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York was officially ruled a suicide, though widespread conspiracy theories persist that he was killed due to his connections to powerful figures.

Bongino’s recent comments follow backlash from MAGA supporters who criticized him and FBI Director Kash Patel for appearing to dismiss Epstein-related conspiracy theories during a joint Fox News interview earlier this month.