Bari Weiss Doubles Down After Backlash Over Scrapped 60 Minutes Story
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson continued:
By releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request, and recently calling for deeper investigations into Epstein’s Democratic friends, the Trump administration has done more for victims than Democrats ever have. And while President Trump keeps his promises, Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries and Stacey Paskett have yet to explain why they were soliciting money and meeting with Epstein after he was convicted as a sex offender. The American people deserve answers.
This statement ignores the fact that congressional Republicans, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, delayed and blocked the release of the records for months. Johnson took advantage of the government shutdown to delay the to take an oath of Democratic Representative Adelita Grijalva, who voted decisively in a release request aimed at forcing the release of the records. All Democrats signed the petition, but only four Republicans did: Reps. Thomas Massie, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nancy Mace.
Trump still refuses to recognize his close relationship with Epstein, and flip flop on the files only after realizing that popular (and Republican) opinion was strongly in favor of the government making them public. Friday’s release is the first look at what the Trump administration is willing to tell the public about what the government knows about Epstein, and much of it is information people already knew. Legally, however, they should disclose anything that does not put victims in danger.
