Mike Johnson, Members of Congress Meet With 6 Epstein Victims: ‘Heartbreaking and Infuriating’
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and a bipartisan group of congressmen and women spoke to six victims of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday during a “heartbreaking” meeting.
“We just spent more than two hours with six of the Epstein victims,” Johnson told reporters following the meeting. “Some of the bravest women I’ve ever met. They’re very courageous, they shared their stories. Some of the ladies have shared these stories publicly before, but at least two of the women had never told their stories before. One for the very first time in the room, and so there were tears in the room, there was outrage.”
He continued, “I would describe it as heartbreaking and infuriating that justice has been delayed so long. Some of the women in the room began to be groomed by Epstein and his accomplices, Ghislaine Maxwell and the others, thirty years ago. There were four attorneys in the room. Some of them began civil litigation against Epstein and the Epstein evils and everything associated with it 20 years ago. This has gone on for a long, long time.”
Johnson declared, “The objective here is not just to uncover and investigate the Epstein evils, but also to ensure that this never happens again, and ultimately to find out why justice has been delayed for these ladies for so very long. It is inexcusable and it will stop now because the Congress is dialed in on this.”
The speaker concluded, “We want to bring justice to every single person who was involved in the Epstein evils and the cover-up thereof, but we also want to be equally certain that we protect the innocent victims. Many of these young women, some of them are now middle-aged women, have never come forward. We do not want their names or identities to be uncovered carelessly or intentionally in any way. So the House Oversight Committee and a bipartisan faction is combing through these documents to ensure that we redact only the information related to the innocent victims themselves. We cannot be involved in subjecting them to any more harm.”
The bipartisan group also included House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL).
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