Former Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor has highlighted that President Donald Trump's midterm Republican convention is attracting more than just the president's supporters to the Dallas, Texas, metro area. Taylor, who served in the DHS during Trump's first term before becoming a prominent critic and revealing himself as the anonymous author of a 2018 New York Times op-ed critical of the administration, has focused his post-government work on accountability advocacy.

"If the GOP wants this week to be all about Trump, then let's have the convention attendees see for themselves the scandal that epitomizes his corruption," Taylor said. "And let's make sure they hear from the survivors of Trump-Epstein abuse, who will be flying into Dallas to be there."

According to Taylor, a planned "Trump-Epstein Bookmobile" tour is en route to Texas and will bring roughly 3.5 million publicly available pages connected to the Justice Department's Jeffrey Epstein investigation to locations across the United States. The Justice Department released the first tranche of files related to its Jeffrey Epstein investigation in late 2025, following years of litigation and pressure from lawmakers and the public for greater disclosure about the late financier's activities. The effort is organized by his organization, DEFENSE.org, together with the Institute for Primary Facts. Its first scheduled stop is Dallas, timed to coincide with the Republican Party's first midterm gathering. Organizers say that survivors of Epstein's abuse will also attend.

The files have previously been printed and exhibited in a New York installation; reporting described that project as containing millions of pages bound into thousands of volumes.

The tour is unfolding against a broader backdrop of tension over how much of the Epstein file material has been made public and what remains withheld, an issue that has drawn sustained attention from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers as well as Epstein's accusers.

"The convention is already shaping up to be a bizarre symbol of cultish loyalty to one man. Trump insisted upon the two-day pep rally, even though GOP candidates are worried about associating with him, given his historically weak poll numbers," Taylor explained. CNN has reported on concerns surrounding the event, and The Economist's approval tracker documents the president's polling position. The Hill has also covered the RNC's midterm convention in Dallas.

Meanwhile, House GOP members running for re-election are being told they must pay over $25,000 just to attend. This is causing friction within the party because Trump has not opened his own campaign coffers to help Republican candidates.

"It doesn't get Trumpier than that," Taylor quipped. "The whole event apparently exists to celebrate him, to tell the stories he wants to tell, and to paper over his misconduct with confetti. Well, the president can count on one thing next week: there will be paper. We're going to make sure of it."

The traveling document tour is intended to highlight what organizers describe as a lack of accountability and Republican lawmakers' unwillingness to continue the congressional investigation, particularly in the House Oversight and Reform Committee. The committee previously conducted its own review of the Epstein files and their handling by federal agencies before that push stalled.

"My former boss, Donald Trump, thinks he can outrun his own corruption and evade the Epstein survivors," Taylor concluded. "He cannot. That's why we put the files on the road. The convention itself lasts only two days. But these documents will be criss-crossing America for two months, then through the midterms, and then as I noted they will follow him into whatever comes after his presidency, until every remaining page is released and every enabler is named. Because of such efforts, the investigation will be reopened one day."

If Democrats take back the House, the Oversight Committee will likely order further investigation into the Justice Department and what documents were withheld from the release of the files.