Rep. Jamie Raskin mentioned in an MSNBC interview on Thursday that Jeffrey Epstein’s not too long ago launched emails show the Division of Justice is intentionally hiding data on ties between President Donald Trump and the accused sex trafficker.
Raskin at the moment serves because the highest-ranking Democrat on the Home Judiciary Committee. The Maryland congressman’s feedback occurred throughout an look on the community’s “Morning Joe.”
Raskin noted that the emails launched by the Epstein property mentioned issues like “Trump knew concerning the women and tried to get [Ghislaine] Maxwell to cease.” The missives “point out that Donald Trump was completely located to know what was occurring and ensconced in that entire tradition,” Raskin mentioned.
“We all know from these emails that Trump was conscious of every thing occurring, and the Division of Justice will need to have these similar emails, and but none of them had been launched by the Division of Justice in these enormous tranches of fabric that had been despatched over, together with fully irrelevant press releases from a few years in the past and all of this flotsam and jetsam stuff,” Raskin defined.
Raskin identified that nothing with Trump’s identify has been launched by the DOJ, at the moment under the leadership of Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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“It is a demonstration that the federal government may be very intentionally withholding the data that everyone is definitely searching for and something that could possibly be damaging to Trump,” he claimed.
As an alternative, in July the division and the FBI merely released a two-page memo with out disclosing the recordsdata underlying the investigation, together with the broadly rumored “consumer listing” exposing the individuals who allegedly got here to Epstein looking for women and younger girls.
The release of Epstein’s emails and the clear connections to Trump have reignited curiosity within the controversy simply as a bipartisan group of Home lawmakers sign on to a discharge petition requiring the federal authorities to reveal all Epstein materials.
The push to reveal the Epstein recordsdata, at the moment scheduled for a vote subsequent week, is transferring ahead despite opposition from key figures like Trump and Home Speaker Mike Johnson. Bondi and other senior administration figures like FBI Director Kash Patel haven’t launched data at their disposal, regardless of intense public curiosity.
Epstein’s victims and their households and family members have remained undaunted all through the method, and have characterised full disclosure as one strategy to obtain justice.
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