Epstein Files: "They're Hiding The Worst Of It"

the fact that even now it still seems to be completely acceptable for these people to fill the highest ranks of power.

"If you were a billionaire and successful in America uh and you were a famous politician, then somehow you were connected to Epstein and somehow you wanted to go to these parties on Epstein's island knowing he was a pedophile. I mean, let's be very clear, this is after he was convicted of pedophilia, knowing that there could be underage girls there.

So, this is just such a staggering scandal. I mean, imagine the the average American thinking that all these people who run the country, business leaders, politicians, are showing up at a pedophile's island. Some of them engaging in gratification with underage girls, some of them raping underage girls, some of them trafficking in these women, and some of them just standing around in the parties knowing what's going on. It it it is disgusting. Well, I think I think something that's almost as disgusting as that is the fact that far from that being a disqualifying factor, you know, you're being invoked in these Epstein files, is the fact that even now it still seems to be completely acceptable for these people to fill the highest ranks of power. I mean, Worsh, who is Trump's pick to be the new Fed chair, his name was in the Epstein files. Howard Lutnik, his name is in the Epstein files. And so it's not some not some bygone thing of a bygone era where we had all of the where we had past tense all of these people at the highest echelons of government who were in some way involved with Jeffrey Epstein. It's still happening. It's right in front of us. I mean how many people in Trump's administration or Trump's orbit from Trump himself to Steve Bannon again Lutnik Worsh there are so many people even now who are in the highest echelons of power uh who are still hiding some you know some some association with Jeffrey Epste. So recognizing that, that gives me very little confidence that these people are actually going to be willing to release what the files actually show or the full breadth of these files because it's not just that there's some nebulous blob of people that Trump and his orbit are trying to protect. The Trump orbit is the nebulous blob of people in part that they're trying to protect.

Well, Brian, you uh nailed it on what survivors tell me and why survivors lawyers are so concerned. It's not that they need closure for something that happened in the past. It's that they are seeing the people uh on the island who were part of this network who may have raped them or trafficked them uh on their TV sets being lionized, celebrated, still holding power in American society. and their view is that the entire Epstein class needs to go.

But it is why I don't have confidence that there has been a full release. It's why I want to see what this 50% of documents that even Blanch says have hasn't been released. What what is in them? Uh why are they more concerned about redactions that protect some of these rich and powerful men than they are actually protecting victim's identity? It's going to take a new president to actually prosecute some of this. Remember the prosecution is statute of limitations is 5 years or to uh to release all the files but we are going to continue to fight uh to get this done and the the scandal is beyond Trump.

the rich and powerful have a rigged game going on. And that ordinary Americans don't have the same uh sense of justice and they don't certainly have the same stake of success in this country.

But it it's just this sense that the highest, richest, wealthiest people in our society were getting away with the most heinous thing. And it it feeds this narrative in this country that people intuitively sense, which is that the rich and powerful have a rigged game going on. And that ordinary Americans
don't have the same uh sense of justice and they don't certainly have the same stake of success in this country. You know, I spoke with uh with Congressman Rascin, and he said that uh that he would be meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch to discuss uh to discuss the prospect of viewing the unredacted files because we have so many redactions in these files that the DOJ did did actually dain to give over. So, not notwithstanding the 3 million documents that haven't been handed over yet and probably aren't going to be handed over by this DOJ, even the documents that were put forward included a ton of redactions. And so are you going to be involved in any way in that that whole effort u uh at the hands of Jamie Rascin to get some answers on what has been redacted thus far?

Absolutely. We will coordinate with Jamie Raskin, but Thomas Massie and I also will be meeting Blanch. Uh and we want to know why some of these redactions took place, what is in those files, how can we get the maximum information to be released, and why some of the 302 forms still haven't been released. the survivors naming these powerful men uh and why uh survivors names were not redacted while these men are still being protected. The minor star is what the survivors and survivors lawyers say and they are still very disappointed with the release. They acknowledge that this is the most significant release uh that has taken place uh over decades. uh they in some sense didn't even think that we'd get this far, but you know, they think it's this is a tactic for uh justice to say, "Look, we did gave you quite a lot. Now, just leave us alone and then we don't get the most nuclear information, the the things that may prove criminal wrongdoing and that really will uh disgust Americans."