Ro Khanna
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I mean, what Massey and I did, our legislation, my legislation, Epstein Transparency Act, literally led to Donald Trump firing his own attorney general.
And it should give the Democratic Party and our leadership some spine to say, you can stand up to Donald Trump.
We don't have to be a doormat.
We can take the fight to him and he will fold.
He folded on signing the Epstein Transparency Act.
Now we have forced him to fire an attorney general who was very loyal to him.
Well, that needs to be the big fight.
I mean, the Senate should insist that we not replace one lawless sycophant with another lawless sycophant.
They need to insist that we have the full release of the Epstein files and get whoever the nominee is to commit to that.
Now, you can say they all make these commitments and then they
back away.
But on this issue, we know that the MAGA base is paying attention.
It was Pam Bondi's broken promise to give the client list that actually cost her a job.
And if Lee Zeldin or whoever comes before the Senate committee and says, I'm going to release all the files and then doesn't, his numbers are going to be underwater in the first month with the MAGA base.
So we need to make Epstein the fight in these Senate hearings.
Obviously, there have to be other
parts of the fight, the abuse of ICE and the political prosecutions, but I would center Epstein and I would get the commitments that they're going to prosecute these men who abuse these young girls.
They're going to release the rest of the files.
They're going to unredact them.
That should be the Democratic Party central organizing principle.