Republican Rep. Thomas Massie stated Sunday there might be “a deluge of Republicans” who vote in favor of forcing the Division of Justice to launch all of the Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata.
“There might be 100 or extra. I am hoping to get a veto-proof majority on this laws when it comes up for a vote,” Massie informed ABC Information’ “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl. Massie was one in all 4 Republicans who defied President Donald Trump and joined Democrats in signing the discharge petition which pressured the vote this week.
The vote comes after the Home Oversight Committee launched over 20,000 paperwork, together with e mail and textual content messages from Epstein, lots of which point out Trump. The president has responded by calling the recordsdata a “hoax” and he pressed Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi to open an investigation into a number of outstanding Democrats over their connections to Epstein.
“I’ve one other concern about these investigations that he is introduced. If they’ve ongoing investigations in sure areas, these paperwork cannot be launched. So this is likely to be an enormous smokescreen, these investigations to open a bunch of them to–as a final ditch effort to stop the discharge of the Epstein recordsdata,” Massie stated.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., seems on ABC Information’ “This Week” on Nov. 16, 2025.
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Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy additionally mentioned the Epstein recordsdata on “This Week,” calling Trump’s name for Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi to analyze Democrats “each heartbreaking and completely unsurprising.”
“The Division of Justice has simply develop into a safety racket for Donald Trump and a witch hunt operation in opposition to his political opponents. For this reason our democracy is in such peril proper now, is that for the primary time in our historical past, the Division of Justice operates to be able to attempt to punish and lock up anyone that criticizes Donald Trump,” Murphy stated.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., seems on ABC Information’ “This Week” on Nov. 16, 2025.
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Trump claimed earlier this yr that he ended his affiliation with Epstein within the early 2000s after discovering that Epstein was allegedly poaching workers from Mar-a-Lago. Trump has not been accused of any crimes associated to the Epstein case.
Listed below are extra highlights from Massie and Murphy’s interviews:
