WATCH: Rep. Dave Min on CNN: “Protecting Pedophiles is Not a Position that is Tenable in the United States of America”
Rep. Min: “We wouldn't need this vote if Donald Trump would just release the Epstein files”
Washington, D.C. — Today, on CNN’s News Central, Representative Dave Min (CA-47), member of the House Oversight Committee and former SEC enforcement attorney, called out Donald Trump and Mike Johnson’s hypocrisy around the release of the Epstein files, pointing out that, “we wouldn't need this vote if Donald Trump would just release the Epstein files” himself.
He also urged that Oversight Democrats would continue to “follow the money” to get to the bottom of the cover up.
On Trump’s Surrender on the Epstein Files Vote:
“I think [Donald Trump and Mike Johnson] suddenly realize that maybe protecting pedophiles is not a position that is tenable in the United States of America or anywhere else. And I'll just say there's an old saying, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. The American people have been fooled over and over and over by Donald Trump and Mike Johnson. And just as a reminder, Sarah pointed this out earlier. We wouldn't need this bill. We wouldn't need this vote if Donald Trump would just release the Epstein files. He went to great lengths to just release the Amelia Earhart files, which nobody was asking for.”
“But just keep in mind they're trying to cover this up. They're trying to protect pedophiles. Now they're coming to the table because they realize they're going to lose this vote. But Donald Trump would continue to do all he can to try to kill this because he doesn't want any transparency and we are starting to get a sense of why. Because his name is all over the Epstein files and that’s becoming clearer and clearer every time we get a production of new documents.”
On Hearing from Survivors:
“Each of them has a story to tell that is tragic. It's harrowing, but it also gives a sense of the scale of this conspiracy. Like each of these survivors tells a story of when they were very, very young. But when you start piecing all these stories together and then you realize that there were thousands of victims, that they came in from all over the country, sometimes international. You get a sense of just how horrific and just evil this whole sex trafficking ring was.”
On the Justice Department Covering Up the Files:
“We have issued a number of subpoenas to the Department of Justice. They've ignored us over the last few months. They've given us one production, a few thousand documents, a few thousand pages of documents, all of which had previously been publicly, publicly released. We know they're sitting on millions of pages of documents. Potentially videos that might expose some of the activities that happened. They have a ton of information, and they're not releasing any of that to us. So of course we have concerns because there's already a subpoena to the Department of Justice that they're really not complying with.”
On Following the Money:
“I'm a former SEC attorney. This document review will take some time, but I just want to note that all of the document production in the recent months has come from the Epstein estate, not from the Department of Justice, not from the FBI. Despite the fact that Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, held these binders that they described as the Epstein files, we're not getting anything from the administration. It's all coming from the Epstein estate. We're going through those. But I will just say, when we talk to the survivors and their attorneys, the biggest thing they wanted us to look through were the financial records. We need to get it to the banks. Follow the money is the mantra. And I think this is a huge conspiracy. Involves a lot of foreign nationals [...] We need details. And those bank records will help us get some sense of what's going on here."
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