Speaking with Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week” this morning, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) made it clear that he has no intention of ending his calls for complete transparency from the Trump administration when it comes to the president’s connections to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, even going so far as to suggest the Trump administration no longer exists and has instead become “the Epstein administration.”
Raddatz began the interview by asking Massie about Attorney General Pam Bondi’s contentious testimony earlier this week before the House Judiciary Committee.
“She came with a book full of insults, one for each congressperson,” Massie said. “She obviously had one for me. And, you know, I’ve been there when [former AG] Merrick Garland was there. Obviously, politically, I don’t agree with him, but he performed much better in terms of at least not looking bad. And, unfortunately, we didn’t get the answers we wanted about the Epstein Files Transparency Act from her.”
Massie added that both Bondi and Deputy AG Todd Blanche may say they have produced all of the Epstein files, but he’s not buying that.
“I know the DOJ wants to say they’re done with this document production,” Massie noted. “The problem is they’ve taken down documents before we were able to go over to the DOJ and look at the unredacted versions. They took down some of the most significant documents. Two of them involving Virginia Giuffre’s case and other things, the picture of Epstein at — in a room where it’s got CIA written on the boxes. That’s been taken down. We want to be able to look at all these files. They can’t keep those documents down after they’ve already produced them.”
What culpability does Trump have in the bungled Epstein files release? Raddatz asked the congressman.
“Look, this is about the Epstein class, the people who are funding the attacks against me,” Massie said. “They may or may not be implicated in these files, but they were certainly rubbing shoulders with the people who are in these files. They’re billionaires who are friends with these people. And that’s what I’m up against in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump told us that even though, you know, he had dinner with these kinds of people in New York City and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent. But he’s not. He’s still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration, and they’re attacking me for trying to get these files released.”
Massie is absolutely correct. The Trump administration is in freefall because the president and his underlings are only focused on one thing: Protecting Donnie and his buddies from facing any consequences for any illegal actions they may have been a part of when Jeffrey Epstein was alive. This issue is not going away, and all the obfuscation in the world won’t end the debate.
Trump can either come clean, resign in shame, or face impeachment in the very near future. Those are the only options that remain.
