When Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California and renegade GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky had a media briefing earlier this week on Capitol Hill, they were unambiguous:
They’d seen names in the unredacted version of the Jeffrey Epstein documents that were clearly involved in untoward activity as they saw it.
“We found six men whose names have been redacted who are implicated in the way the files are presented,”Massie saidafter the two viewed the documents at the Department of Justice.
Khanna read them aloud on the House floor after viewing the documents, entering the six names into the Congressional Record and unredacting them thanks to the broad protections offered by theSpeech or Debate Clauseof the Constitution.
“Why did it take Thomas Massie and me going to the Justice Department to get these six men’s identities to become public?” Khanna asked during his remarks on the House floor, according toPolitico. “And if we found six men that they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those 3 million files.”
As it turns out, according to theJustice Department, four of the men were just randomly pulled in by police to appear in a photo lineup with Epstein. Whoops.
And, according to Khanna, that’s the DOJ’s fault; the California Democrat is offering up the political version of the “why did your face get in the way of my fist?” excuse to explain why he made an unforced error.
Massie is looking even more sloppy, implying but not explicitly stating that he doesn’t seem to have checked the date of birth of one of the innocent men against the date of birth of a member of the European Parliament from Italy, which seems to negate his claim that one of the individuals was “pretty high up” in a foreign government.
As theU.K. Guardiannoted, only two of the six names had any real incriminating ties with Epstein, and only one was an especially new name: Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, an Emirati billionaire,who resignedas CEO of UAE-based logistics company DP World after he was named in connection with Epstein.
The other, retail billionaireLeslie Wexner, has long faced questions about his ties with Epstein, given that he seems to be how Epstein made most of his money and got his entrée into elite society. He was never charged with a crime, although one would assume his name appeared, redacted,somewherein the documents, and likely in more than one somewhere.
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