‘The American People Deserve To Know The Truth’: House Leader Goes Hard on Epstein Scandal
Administration either is lying, or engaging in a cover-up, Hakeem Jeffries asserts
You know that the Epstein Files controversy isn’t going anywhere since the top Democrat in the House of Representatives decided to speak out and hammer the Trump administration over the scandal.
Specifically, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, of New York, is accusing administration officials like Attorney General Pam Bondi of either lying about documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, or engaging in a massive cover-up of those documents.
The Epstein matter — which has consumed Donald Trump and top officials in his government — revolves around whether the federal government will release documents related to the sex crimes of Epstein, who died in jail in 2019.
Trump’s own MAGA supporters have been breaking with the president as Bondi just months ago told an interviewer that she had a list of powerful individuals also involved in Epstein’s crimes but recently changed and said such a list doesn’t exist.
Others who today are members of his administration, such as FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, had been talking about the so-called Epstein “client list” for years.
Trump, himself known as a onetime close associate of Epstein’s, has been demanding that Americans drop discussion of the matter. Trump claims that he has had no involvement in Epstein’s sex crimes, which involved young girls and women.
Jeffries gave a long answer about the Epstein scandal Monday when asked by a reporter during a news conference.
“The American people deserve to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth as it relates to this whole sordid Jeffrey Epstein matter,” he said. “Democrats didn’t put the Jeffrey Epstein thing into the public domain. This was a conspiracy that Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, and these MAGA extremists have been fanning the flames of for the last several years. And now the chickens are coming home to roost.
“The American people deserve to know the truth. What, if anything, is the Trump Administration and the Department of Justice hiding? What are you hiding? If you’re not hiding anything, prove that to the American people,” Jeffries added. “And if you are trying to hide something, as many of Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters apparently believe, then the Congress should actually work hard to try to uncover the truth for the American people.”
There are only two things that are possible with the Epstein Files, according to Jeffries.
“Option 1: Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, and the MAGA extremists intentionally lied to the American people for years about the Jeffrey Epstein situation. That’s option one,” he said. “Option 2 is that, in fact, there’s reason for the American people to be concerned as it relates to what information has not been released that could be damaging to the Trump administration and the friends and family of the Trump administration and their billionaire corrupt supporters. And so, they’re actively engaging in a cover-up.
“Option 1, they lied for years. Option 2, they’re engaging in a cover-up. At this point, it seems reasonable that can only be one of the two things,” Jeffries said. “And so, it’s Congress’s responsibility in a bipartisan way to ask the questions and try to get answers on behalf of the American people.”
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