Ro Khanna
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A lot of them, by the way, didn't have a father.
They were purposely targeted because they were vulnerable.
Epstein creates a rape island where basically rich and powerful people go down there either to abuse or sexually exploit these young girls or to watch in parties as 13 and 14 year olds are paraded around and they're drinking booze and laughing.
And then you have people trafficking these girls, even when they were underage or 19, 20, being trafficked to other rich and powerful folks.
They call the FBI.
The FBI says, we're not going to do anything.
Well, I don't know if you had the president on or the vice president on your show, but they- Had both of them on.
They campaigned on this, right?
And so when Massey and I originally did the bill, we thought, okay, Trump should be for this.
Because he campaigned, he said, look, we're going to release the files.
Here's the truth of the matter.
No one cared about this issue since the 1990s.
It's not like a Donald Trump thing.
Biden, we didn't release the files under Biden.
This thing was going on since the 2000s.
In 1996, Maria launched a complaint with the FBI, and she was told, we're not going to do anything.
By the way, you talk to some of the other survivors, they were told, don't talk to the New York police.
Epstein is too connected.
For 30 years, until some of the documents just came out, because of Massey and my bill, Maria was called a liar by everyone in power and said, oh, she never filed a complaint with the FBI.
So when Trump said he wants to release the files, he was right.