WASHINGTON — The liberal “Dear White Staffers” Instagram account collaborated on a post this week calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to “hunt down” and eliminate “the people in the Epstein files.”
The account, whose content is frequently promoted by many Democrats in Congress, boosted activist Ariana Jasmine’s Tuesday post, in which she dared critics to sue over the call for vigilante murder.
“As an American, I would like my tax dollars to be used for ICE to hunt down and [shoot]/[kill] the people in the Epstein files, not random immigrants,” the post said.
“I said what I said.”
The Justice Department finished releasing approximately 3.5 million pages of files related to late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein earlier this year. The files include disturbing details about sex crimes against numerous women and eyebrow-raising information about the elites who courted the financier.
But the files also feature news stories and other material with the names of scores of people who weren’t connected to any of Epstein’s crimes.
“Dear White Staffers” is run by Philip Bennett, the operations director for “Squad” Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) who also founded the Congressional Workers Union. Bennett previously worked for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)
The account began as a platform for minority staffers on Capitol Hill to voice grievances, vent frustrations, and share gossip about lawmakers.
However, Jasmine’s post was not the first time “Dear White Staffers” strayed into tastelessness.
“If Trump dies while I’m in a movie theater can I interrupt the movie to tell everyone,” its X account mused in April.
“Maybe Democrats shouldn’t be playing a [sic] baseball with fascists,” the account chided last year in response to a post about the annual Congressional baseball game.
“Dems about to get real f—ing racist,” the account said after President Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election.
Dear White Staffers has also become a hotbed of anti-Israel sentiment, accusing the Jewish state of genocide and bizarrely tying it to tactics used by Capitol Police, among other claims.
Due to its popularity, multiple prominent Democrats, such as House Oversight Committee ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), have collaborated with it.
On Thursday, Garcia did a collaboration post with the account in which he called for ICE to be abolished.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) also did a cross-post with “Dear White Staffers” to mark the one-year anniversary of the introduction of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Bennett did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
