Republican Rep. Thomas Massie mentioned Sunday there could possibly be “a deluge of Republicans” who vote in favor of forcing the Division of Justice to launch all of the Jeffrey Epstein information.
“There could possibly be 100 or extra. I am hoping to get a veto-proof majority on this laws when it comes up for a vote,” Massie advised ABC Information’ “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl. Massie was certainly one of 4 Republicans who defied President Donald Trump and joined Democrats in signing the discharge petition which compelled the vote this week.
The vote comes after the Home Oversight Committee launched over 20,000 paperwork, together with electronic mail and textual content messages from Epstein, a lot of which point out Trump. The president has responded by calling the information a “hoax” and he pressed Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi to open an investigation into a number of distinguished Democrats over their connections to Epstein.
“I’ve one other concern about these investigations that he is introduced. If they’ve ongoing investigations in sure areas, these paperwork cannot be launched. So this may be a giant smokescreen, these investigations to open a bunch of them to–as a final ditch effort to stop the discharge of the Epstein information,” Massie mentioned.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., seems on ABC Information’ “This Week” on Nov. 16, 2025.
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Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy additionally mentioned the Epstein information on “This Week,” calling Trump’s name for Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi to research Democrats “each heartbreaking and completely unsurprising.”
“The Division of Justice has simply turn out to be a safety racket for Donald Trump and a witch hunt operation in opposition to his political opponents. That is why our democracy is in such peril proper now, is that for the primary time in our historical past, the Division of Justice operates so as to attempt to punish and lock up anyone that criticizes Donald Trump,” Murphy mentioned.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., seems on ABC Information’ “This Week” on Nov. 16, 2025.
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Trump claimed earlier this 12 months that he ended his affiliation with Epstein within the early 2000s after discovering that Epstein was allegedly poaching staff from Mar-a-Lago. Trump has not been accused of any crimes associated to the Epstein case.
Listed here are extra highlights from Massie and Murphy’s interviews:
