'Trump R*P*D 13 Year Old Minor': Massie TORCHES Republicans Over Epstein Files

I'm here today. The chair has been made aware of the valid basis for the gentleman's point of personal privilege. The gentleman from Kentucky is recognized for one hour. Roughly three weeks ago, the Speaker of the House said, let me tell you how stupid Thomas Massey's comment is. An article said that Johnson says Republicans are here to work and will remain in Washington throughout September, according to the House calendar. He goes on to say, that is a nonsensical statement by someone who is not participating as a full member of the Congress. And it's really sad that he doesn't, unquote. Well, I'm here today to let you know that I'm a full participating member of the House of Representatives. In fact, when other people want to go home, I'm here to work. I'm here to get justice for the Epstein victims, the survivors. I am here to get the price of food and fuel down for our constituents. We've got solutions. We just refuse to pass them. So what happened a couple weeks ago is I introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act 2 discharge petition, and I predicted that the House would take days off the calendar in order to avoid a vote on this again. If you remember a year ago, we had the Epstein recess, I call it. My colleague Ro Khanna and I have been very successful in collecting names. We were just two signatures short of 218 on a discharge petition, and the leadership of this body recessed this body for weeks to avoid swearing in one member that would have been the 218th vote. I was here, I was ready to work, to be a fully participating member of Congress. Well, the speakers saw otherwise, the leadership here saw otherwise, and they kept Congress shut down for weeks. We came back, I got that 218th signature, and the bill that Ro Khanna and I co-authored became law. Every member except for one member of this House voted for our legislation that they had criticized for months. if it was so bad why did they all vote for it that bill went to the senate it passed by unanimous consent if you ask the senators can you pass one of our house bills what will they say well we'll see if we can get it on the docket that's going to take at least three days we got to get a 60 vote threshold we um to get overcome the filibuster and so uh it's going to be a while how long did it take them to pass the Epstein files transparency Act they passed it before it got there it left this house and on the walk between the house and the Senate they made a unanimous consent to pass that bill as soon as it got there and nobody objected the president himself signed that bill he had earlier said it would be a hostile act to even support that bill and what came of it three million files released now we've yet to see justice here in the United States but we watched a British ambassador to the United States lose his job. He was sacked. We saw the prince, the prince of England, lose his title. We saw the former prime minister of Norway arrested, convicted, maybe not convicted yet, but arrested. We saw the minister of culture in France receive the same fate. CEOs, presidents of universities resigned over a hoax. Somebody should have told him it was a hoax because that's what we were told that it was a hoax folks it wasn't a hoax and there's still three million of those files that are being withheld at the Department of Justice and the ones that have been released have been overly redacted in contravention of that law so am i a fully what would a fully participating member of Congress do if he got a law enacted against the will of the president against the will of the speaker against the will against all odds, and then the chief law enforcement officer of the country will not follow the law. What would a fully participating member of Congress do? Well, I think he'd do what I did. I wrote, along with Ro Khanna and Teresa Ledger Fernandez, by the way, when did it become a dirty word to work across the aisle? When did that become forbidden? I thought that was supposed to be a good thing, to form coalitions. Oh, Massey, he, you know, he can't get anything done. He can't get people to agree with him. It was 427 to 1 was the vote on the Epstein files. Come on. I think that's a pretty big coalition, but it was more than just getting the files released. My colleague Ro Khanna and I held the biggest press conference that's ever occurred in Washington, D.C. in at least a decade for as long as I've been here. Is that something a not fully participating member of Congress would do? I don't think so. Why did we do it? To give a voice to the survivors. We gave them a venue to speak to you, the people in power, the people who were hiding the files at the DOJ, at the FBI, at the U.S. attorneys. For the first time ever, we gave them a voice. We gave them a platform. And they were brave. They stepped up. They told their very tragic, sad story. And they compelled the rest of this body to do the right thing after resisting for so long. So that gets us to where we are now on the Epstein Files. This is me. This was me. My name is Charlene Rochard, and I stand before you today not as a victim of rumor or conspiracy, but as a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse. Far too long, survivors like me have been dismissed, silenced, are told that our pain was exaggerated or fabricated let me be clear this is not a hoax what we endured was real and it has scarred lives across five presidential administrations the truth has been buried in sealed files and hidden records for far too long the Epstein Files Transparency Act is not just about survivors It's about America itself. How can we keep America great if the principles the nation was founded on, that power belongs to the people, is not protected? No one, no matter how wealthy and well-connected, stands above the law. If we cannot face the truth, then we betray the very ideals that defines us as a country. By passing this act, Congress has the chance to prove that truth matters more than privilege. that justice matters more than influence and that america has the courage to confront even the most uncomfortable realities this is not just about survivors it's about every american who believes in accountability fairness and the promise of justice i stand here today not only for myself but for every survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse who has carried this burden in silence and for every citizen who believes that justice delayed is justice denied. I want to thank Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie for standing with us. Thank you and I especially want to thank Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. Her unwavering support, her courage to stand with us and demand transparency gives us strength. It shows that this fight for accountability is bigger than politics. It's about humanity, justice, and truth. This is about America's future. It's about whether we the people will be heard when we have the courage to stand for truth and justice. Our voices are real, our pain is real, and our demand for justice will not be silenced.