Washington — Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, and Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, are holding a information convention Wednesday alongside survivors of late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, amid requires better transparency on the recordsdata.
A few of the ladies, who will likely be joined by their attorneys, are talking publicly for the primary time in regards to the abuse, after renewed consideration on the recordsdata in latest months.
Epstein was going through trial on intercourse trafficking fees when he he died in federal custody in 2019 in what quite a few investigations deemed a suicide. And after the Justice Division issued the findings of an internal review in July that discovered no “shopper checklist” or proof that Epstein had blackmailed distinguished figures, curiosity within the recordsdata swelled, spurring requires better transparency from the Trump administration and dividing the president’s base.
Wednesday’s information convention comes as Democrats and a few Republicans have pushed for the discharge of the recordsdata. Massie filed a discharge petition on Tuesday to aim to pressure a Home vote on his and Khanna’s laws compelling the Justice Division to publicly launch the recordsdata.
“The target right here isn’t just to uncover, examine the Epstein evils, but additionally to make sure that this by no means occurs once more, and in the end, to seek out out why justice has been delayed for these girls for therefore very lengthy. It’s inexcusable, and it’ll cease now, as a result of the Congress is dialed in on this,” Johnson stated Tuesday in regards to the vote.
In the meantime, members of the Home Oversight Committee met privately with the survivors on Tuesday. And the committee made public a portion of the paperwork late Tuesday, releasing more than 33,000 pages of recordsdata that included court docket paperwork and flight data, together with video and audio recordings. CBS Information reviewed the recordsdata and confirmed that a big majority of them had beforehand been made public. Democrats on the committee claimed that 97% of the paperwork launched Tuesday have been already public.
