Home Republican leaders on Tuesday insisted there’s nothing in any respect damning about President Donald Trump within the authorities’s information on accused intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein—however they nonetheless will not launch the information.
Home Oversight Committee Chair James Comer—a Trump ally who’s main a so-called investigation into what’s within the Epstein information—insisted there’s truly extra incriminating info on Democrats within the information.
If that have been the case, you’d assume extra Home Republicans would need the information launched.
And but … nope.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson took to the rostrum to slam Democrats and the handful of GOP lawmakers who’re pushing for the Epstein information’ launch, claiming that not releasing the information is supposed to guard Epstein’s victims.
“Unfortunately, some Democrats and, sadly, even a couple Republicans have tried to make this a political issue,” Johnson complained. “They seem to be more interested in trying somehow to lay glove on the president than in securing justice for these victims. And I think that’s shameful.”
What’s extra, if there’s nothing within the information that may make Trump look unhealthy, then Republicans like Johnson and Comer ought to be positive with their launch.
However Johnson has stored the Home on recess for greater than a month so as to justify not swearing in Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, who is anticipated to be the ultimate vote on a discharge petition that may power the chamber to vote on releasing the Epstein information.
In fact, latest stories say that Trump’s title is littered all through the Epstein information. That is sensible provided that Trump and the accused pedophile have been as soon as shut pals. And Trump is insistent that the information—which he just lately referred to as a “hoax”—by no means see the sunshine of day.
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, proven in 2019.
Polls present massive majorities People assume the information ought to be launched, and assume the federal government is hiding one thing by not releasing them.
The truth that Republicans like Johnson and Comer are so hell-bent on holding the information secret doubtless hardens these beliefs.
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who, together with Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California, launched the invoice to power a vote on releasing the Epstein information, doesn’t consider Johnson’s insistence that the information shouldn’t be launched.
Massie pointed to the truth that the Epstein information publicity has led the UK to take motion towards a member of the royal household who’s allegedly concerned in Epstein’s little one sexual exploitation.
“First the British Ambassador lost his job and now the Prince lost his title. Don’t tell us there’s nothing in the Epstein files. The truth is coming out and we will not give up. Repost this and tag [Johnson] if you want him to quit delaying the vote,” Massie wrote in a publish on X.
