Khanna and Massie to hold press conference with Epstein victims

Source: Politico

08/31/2025 11:12 AM EDT


With Congress back in session this week, Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) are ready to once again push House Speaker Mike Johnson and the White House for transparency in the Jeffrey Epstein case. The next step: a Wednesday press conference with 10 of Epstein’s victims, Khanna told NBC’s Kristen Welker in an interview on “Meet the Press,” “many who have never spoken out before.”

“They’re going to be on the steps of the Capitol,” Khanna said. “They will be telling their story, and they will be saying clearly to the American public that they want the release of the Epstein files for full closure on this matter.”

Outcry over the White House’s handling of the Epstein case engulfed the administration early in the summer after the FBI and DOJ announced they had uncovered no evidence of a so-called client list and were effectively closing any investigation, angering the MAGA allies who were counting on more information about the disgraced financier and his connections to society’s upper crust. Some of them, from Laura Loomer to Liz Wheeler, called for Attorney General Pam Bondi to lose her job.

Trump didn’t help matters, aggravating supporters last month by calling the Epstein case a Democratic hoax and disavowing the “PAST supporters” who he said “bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker.”

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