Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) detailed threats towards him on Wednesday after saying Home Republicans are going through an “immense pressure campaign” from the White Home to not be part of him in forcing a vote to launch the publicly unread Jeffrey Epstein information.
“What do those threats look like? What kind of pressure campaign are we talking about here?” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins requested after Massie helped arrange a gathering of Epstein victims on the Capitol earlier.
“Well, I’m feeling it myself in my own district. There’s been $2.5 million of ads run against me by three billionaires who are mega donors to the Republican Party, and one of them is actually, I’m not going to say on Epstein’s list, but he’s in Epstein’s black book. So I’ve taken the brunt of that myself. I think what’s being run against me is a threat to other Republicans to try to keep them from doing what I’m doing,” he replied.
“And are you worried that it’s going to be successful here?” Collins adopted.
“Well, you know, I’ve opposed the president before, and he said I should be thrown out of the GOP,” Massie replied. “And in that race, I got 81% of the vote. So in some sense, I have the Trump antibodies, but I’m definitely going to get a booster shot here.”
The Trump administration acknowledged Wednesday that aiding Massie “would be viewed as a very hostile act to the administration.” Massie wrote on X that the president and his circle are “threatening anyone who helps bring true transparency and justice for the survivors.”
He stated Trump is attempting to guard highly effective folks who may be named within the information. The paperwork chronicle the investigations of the late Epstein, a former Trump pal and closely related intercourse offender who died in jail in 2019. Trump promised the information could be launched, then immediately pulled an about-face earlier in the summertime. On Wednesday, he known as them a “Democrat hoax.”
Some information had been launched this week, however they had been principally paperwork that had already been seen.
Massie drew Trump’s ire when he pushed again towards the so-called “big, beautiful bill,” along with questioning his reversal on the Epstein information.
A report by Politico on July 31 detailed $2 million raised by an excellent PAC of Trump allies known as MAGA KY. Anti-Massie advertisements backed by the group started showing in late June, as beforehand reported by HuffPost.
