GOP Senator Warns Trump-Epstein Issue Not ‘Gonna Go Away’: ‘My People Want to Know’ Who Else Was Involved

Republican Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) warned on CNN this week that the Trump administration needs to address the Jeffrey Epstein scandal “to the American people’s satisfaction” or it will not go away.

Kennedy was asked on Thursday by anchor Kasie Hunt, “How do you respond to those comments from Thomas Massie that essentially, if you vote to cover up for pedophiles, you’ve got cover in a Republican primary? He’s essentially saying the president is going to help people who vote with him and vote not to release these files.”

“Well, here is the way that my people here in Louisiana see it, Kasie. My people think, and I agree with them, that Epstein was a pig, a P-I-G pig. My people think this is no country for creepy old men. My people believe, and I think they’re right, that Epstein trafficked young women, some of whom were minors, to himself. But here’s the issue. My people want to know: Who else, if anyone, did Epstein traffic young women to?” Kennedy replied, adding:

And if they were punished, how were they punished? And if they weren’t punished, why? Now, President Trump has turned that issue over to Attorney General Bondi. And I don’t know how she is going to answer that question for the American people without releasing all the records. Maybe she can, but I just don’t think this issue is going to go away until that issue is addressed and answered to the American people’s satisfaction, and I may end up with a sombrero on my head for saying that, but that’s the way I see it.

Both House Republicans and Democrats released a trove of Epstein files, including emails that mentioned Trump over 2,000 times. The House also gained enough signatures this week to force a vote on a bill to release the Epstein files to the public, a vote Trump has actively pressured Republicans not to support.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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