Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) are set to carry a information convention with ten Jeffrey Epstein victims on Wednesday as they proceed urgent for the declassification of the Epstein recordsdata.
Massie and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) beforehand joined forces with Ro Khanna on a discharge petition aimed toward compelling a full Home vote on releasing labeled Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata. Khanna mentioned that 12 Democrats and 12 Republicans have signed onto the petition.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, nevertheless, Home Speaker Mike Johnson adjourned the Home early, and lawmakers fled DC for all the month of August after reported tensions over the petition. Johnson later blasted Massie for not bringing the petition to the ground in the course of the Biden years and now “clammoring” about it.
Massie had beforehand demanded the discharge of the Epstein consumer checklist, however didn’t act like he’s now. Nonetheless, it’s unclear if it could have had the help essential to move when Biden was President, and this is a matter that outstanding supporters of President Trump– together with present FBI Director Kash Patel– championed to assist Trump get elected.
I demand the discharge of Epstein’s consumer checklist!
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 10, 2024
Nonetheless, the Trump Administration has angered supporters of the President with its dealing with of the case. In February, Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel hosted a big Epstein file launch for a select group of MAGA influencers, handing them white binders that turned out to don’t have anything new inside. Bondi later claimed that she was misled by FBI brokers and that “hundreds of pages of paperwork” have been withheld from her workplace.
Director Patel later defended the unimaginable claims that Jeffrey Epstein dedicated suicide regardless of the sequence of questionable circumstances surrounding his dying, together with the safety cameras not working, the safety guards falling asleep, after which falsifying data to cowl their negligence.
Later, in July, a leaked DOJ memo claimed there was no incriminating consumer checklist, no credible blackmail proof, and no grounds to analyze uncharged people related to Epstein’s large intercourse trafficking operation.
President Trump has even referred to as some Republicans “stupid” and “foolish” for wanting the Epstein recordsdata so badly. “It’s perpetrated by the Democrats and a few silly Republicans and silly Republicans fall into the web, and they also attempt to do the Democrats work,” he mentioned. The President additionally referred to as the concept that there may be extra to the story “bullsh*t” and condemned his “PAST supporters” for getting into the “Jeffrey Epstein hoax.”
Now, Massie and Khanna are internet hosting a press convention with victims that we’ve not heard from on September 3.
“Persons are going to be outraged,” following the information convention, Democrat Ro Khanna mentioned in an interview with Fox.
“These victims have not spoken for many years. When Epstein bought that lenient plea deal, nobody talked to the victims or their attorneys.”
He added, “All of the victims are saying is for closure, we’d like the Epstein recordsdata launched, that there are a variety of different wealthy, highly effective males, politicians, enterprise leaders, who’ve dedicated abuse and who haven’t been held accountable.”
Watch under through Fox:
Khanna: We have 212 Democrats and 12 Republicans, together with Marjorie Taylor Inexperienced, Lauren Boebert. Look, this isn’t about Donald Trump, and it isn’t partisan. That is about justice for the victims of wealthy and highly effective males who abused underage women. And 10 of those victims are talking out for the primary time at a press convention that Massey and I are organizing on the steps of the Capitol on September 3. On this nation, individuals need transparency, they need accountability. I am assured we will get the 218 votes for the discharge petition.
Reporter: Speak about that information convention since you’re sort of touting it, that it may be, if not explosive, there’s going to be some information made.
Khanna: Properly, these victims have not spoken for many years. When Epstein bought that lenient plea deal, nobody talked to the victims or their attorneys. Nobody talked to the victims or their attorneys when Maxwell was sentenced. Nobody has ever heard, what do they need? And my perception is, when the American individuals really hear the victims for the primary time, they’re going to sympathize, their hearts are going to be damaged. And all of the victims are saying is for closure, we’d like the Epstein recordsdata launched, that there are a variety of different wealthy, highly effective males, politicians, enterprise leaders, who’ve dedicated abuse and who haven’t been held accountable. That is what we will hear on September 3, and individuals are going to be outraged. And I do not see how after that, the home cannot vote for the discharge of those recordsdata.