Epstein Survivors Will Rally in DC Today, Trump Denies That He Has Died, and Someone Is Dotting Capitol Hill Trees With Bananas - Washingtonian
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Epstein Survivors Will Rally in DC Today, Trump Denies That He Has Died, and Someone Is Dotting Capitol Hill Trees With Bananas - Washingtonian
"The Epstein story has returned: Up to 100 survivors of sexual abuse, most of them victims of disgraced, deceased financier Jeffery Epstein, will attend a rally on Capitol Hill today "as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker." ( Miami Herald) The House Oversight Committee released tens of thousands of documents it received from DOJ Tuesday night,"
"though US Representative Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the committee, estimated that "97 percent of the documents contained information the Justice Department and other law enforcement agencies had already disclosed." ( Washington Post) The Epstein situation is a "political quagmire that continues to plague Speaker Mike Johnson this week after the month-long congressional recess." ( Politico) Six Epstein survivors urged the government to release more documents and asked President Trump-a former friend to Epstein who report"
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