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‘Did not Get the Solutions We Needed’
Thomas Massie calls Trump’s White Home the ‘Epstein administration.’
“She got here with a e-book filled with insults, one for every congressperson,” Massie stated of Bondi’s look at Wednesday’s Home Judiciary listening to.
“She clearly had one for me. And, you realize, I have been there when [former AG] Merrick Garland was there. Clearly, politically, I do not agree with him, however he carried out significantly better when it comes to at the least not wanting unhealthy. And, sadly, we did not get the solutions we wished concerning the Epstein Recordsdata Transparency Act from her,” he added.
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Recordsdata Have been ‘Eliminated’
Massie slams DOJ for eradicating key Epstein information.
He additionally slammed Bondi and Deputy AG Todd Blanche over the letter stating all information had been launched.
“I do know the DOJ needs to say they’re completed with this doc manufacturing,” Massie stated. “The issue is that they’ve taken down paperwork earlier than we had been in a position to evaluation the unredacted variations. A few of the most vital ones, together with Virginia Giuffre’s case and a photograph of Epstein in a room with packing containers marked ‘CIA,’ have been eliminated. We wish to see all these information—they cannot simply take them down after manufacturing.”
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DOJ Launched All of the Epstein Recordsdata
Massie stated he is being ‘attacked’ for attempting to get the Epstein information launched.
On Saturday, February 14, Bondi and Blanche knowledgeable lawmakers in a letter that the company had supplied all paperwork associated to Epstein in compliance with the Epstein Transparency Act.
“In accordance with the necessities of the Act… the Division launched all ‘data, paperwork, communications and investigative supplies within the possession of the Division’ that ‘relate to’ [Epstein],” the letter acknowledged.
Officers famous that some info was redacted to safeguard victims’ privateness, together with private and medical particulars deemed a “clearly unwarranted invasion of private privateness.”
Nevertheless, some lawmakers stay divided on the doc launch. Throughout a latest listening to, Rep. Jamie Raskin accused Bondi of “ignoring” victims and operating what he referred to as a “huge Epstein cover-up.”
Bondi responded by reportedly calling Raskin a “washed-up, loser lawyer,” because the dispute intensified.
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Massie stated Trump promised transparency however stays tied to the Epstein circle.
Massie additionally instantly referred to as out Trump, who has repeatedly attacked the congressman and his spouse whereas supporting Massie’s Republican major opponent, Ed Gallrein.
“Look, that is concerning the Epstein class, the people who find themselves funding the assaults in opposition to me,” Massie stated. “They might or might not be implicated in these information, however they had been definitely rubbing shoulders with the people who find themselves in these information. Donald Trump advised us he could be clear, though he had dinner with these sorts of individuals in New York Metropolis and West Palm Seashore. However he is not. He is nonetheless in with the Epstein class. That is the Epstein administration, and so they’re attacking me for attempting to get these information launched.”