Rep. Drops Bomb on Trump After Seeing Unredacted Files, "The Famous Names are Horrific"

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What shocking revelations do the unredacted Epstein files contain?

Jennifer Welch 0:05
All right, welcome to IHIP News. We are in New York with Congressman Ro Khanna, who has been in the epicenter of the biggest cover-up in American history, I think possibly global history, and of course, I'm talking about the Epstein files. You have partnered with a strange bedfellow, a Republican, bipartisanship support, to release the full files.
Ro Khanna 0:28
Well, first of all, it's good to see you in person.
Jennifer Welch 0:29
You too.
Ro Khanna 0:29
I usually see you just on a Zoom screen, and I appreciate your voice. It's been so disturbing and disgusting. I mean, look, I met these survivors for months. They've come into Congressman Thomas Massey and my offices. They have broken down in tears. People talk about being raped at 13, 14, and then being told to recruit others or they're going to continue to be raped. One person said it's like a box. You can push it away, but it comes back up. So for me and Thomas Massey and Marjorie Taylor Greene, this became very personal. And to see the level of people who are involved and the most famous people and powerful people in finance, in business, in Hollywood, thinking there's nothing wrong going to a convicted pedophile's island and watching at parties where girls are being paraded naked

How did Congressman Ro Khanna collaborate with bipartisan support on Epstein files?

Ro Khanna 1:25
or knowing that young girls are being raped, I mean, it is just horrifying to me, genuinely horrifying. And that's why I call this the Epstein class, because if you look at the survivors, so many of them come from working-class backgrounds. One of the things I found so disturbing is many of them didn't have a father, so they were being preyed on in that kind of calculated way. And the people who were abusing and raping them were rich and powerful and knew politicians and told them, don't call the police. So it is just this abuse of power that people for their own gratification treated these folks at disposable for years.
Jennifer Welch 2:02
What percentage of the Epstein files have you seen?
Ro Khanna 2:07
I have seen more than probably most, but it's still 2% or so because they have 3 million of these files that they're allowing us to see and the unredacted versions of just those 3 million. There are 3 million that they've totally scrubbed, the FBI, but they give us one hour to do it in a cubicle about the size of the studio with four computers. So they've kept a lot of it hidden. And I have more insight because I've got a great team and the survivors will text me. One person without revealing her confidence said, look, I was raped when I was 17 in France. And I was raped in a building by someone who lived in the same building as Jeffrey Epstein. And this person's in the files and he's left the United States and he left France because he doesn't want to be under any jurisdiction.
Ro Khanna 3:07
And she's like, why aren't we investigating this person?

What personal experiences did survivors share with Congressman Khanna?

Ro Khanna 3:10
Why aren't we prosecuting this person? And I can't tell you how many cases there are like that. They're not all famous people. They're just rich and powerful men who raped these girls. And there's no investigation. There's no prosecution. And one of them texted me after Pam Bondi and she said, I've lost hope. I mean, all the pundits are looking at this, oh, who insulted who? Who came out ahead? And the survivors are just saying, what is going on in this country that we can't get investigations and prosecution?
Jennifer Welch 3:43
Pam Bondi, I thought her... ridiculous, immature, smug performance was most, I mean, most of all was a direct insult to these victims and such a flagrant expression that your voice doesn't matter. But what I have to think about is these women came forward a long time ago during the Obama administration. Yes. And if we take it all the way back, we have Democratic

What percentage of the Epstein files has Congressman Khanna been able to access?

Jennifer Welch 4:09
DOJ's and then Trump's DOJ where Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. And then I said that in quotes for those of you that are listening. And then we have Merrick Garland's DOJ where that wasn't even investigated at all. And now it's back here. And because of you and your bipartisanship, we are pushing forward. And it's just unbelievable to me. I heard Jamie Raskin say that he thinks Trump's name is in the files over one million times.

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