Two Republican congresswomen who have viewed unredacted documents on Jeffrey Epstein say they show that some of the blacked-out names in public documents include co-conspirators who “claim to be victims.”
“Some of the worst modifiers claim to be victims, but I don’t think they are victims if you’re in child sex trafficking,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Texas, told Pablo Manriquez of the anti-Trump media company MeidasTouch.
Luna, a member of the House Oversight Committee investigating Epstein’s case, said the documents also show Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell was a “monster.”
Maxwell, who was moved to a comfort prison camp this summer after being interviewed by Deputy Attorney General Todd Branch, declined to answer questions from House lawmakers during his testimony Monday.
She said if President Donald Trump ends her sentence, she is willing to testify that neither he nor former President Bill Clinton did anything wrong in their relationship with Epstein.
“Based on the documentation that we’ve all seen, she was engaged in human trafficking and raping young women and possibly children,” Luna said. “I don’t think she deserves special treatment. She’s a monster.”
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., a member of the House Oversight Committee, came to the same conclusion as Luna after reviewing the unredacted documents.
“I think there are definitely people involved and complicit…I don’t think everyone who talks about underage girls being trafficked is a victim,” she said.
Asked by Manriquez if she thought Maxwell deserved leniency, Boebert responded: “I don’t think so. I think Ghislaine Maxwell deserves more time and she definitely deserves to be in a tougher prison than what she’s in now. Absolutely disgusting.”
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