Key Statements from Epstein Victims and Politicians as House Votes to Release DOJ Files

The US House of Representatives voted nearly unanimously to compel the release of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents.

US President Donald Trump, along with members of both political parties, made passionate statements Tuesday as the House voted to force the Department of Justice to release records connected to deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Below are notable quotes from the day's proceedings:

US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP stated, "I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. I threw him out of my club many years ago because I thought he was a sick pervert."

JENA-LISA JONES, an Epstein victim who was sexually abused at age 14, pleaded, "Please stop making this political. It is not about you, President Trump. I voted for you, but your behavior on this issue has been a national embarrassment."

REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS MASSIE, Kentucky Republican, declared, "The DOJ is protecting pedophiles and sex traffickers. The time for that to stop is now... How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when there are men, rich men, in handcuffs, being perp-walked to the jail. And until then, this is still a cover-up."

REPRESENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE from Georgia emphasized, "This was a fight that we should have never had to wage. It should have been the easiest thing for every single member of Congress, it should have been the easiest thing for the Speaker of the House, it should have been the easiest thing for the President of the United States to release all the information, every single file, on behalf of these American women."

WENDY DAVIS, one of Epstein's accusers, shared, "None of us here signed up for this political warfare. We never asked to be dragged into battles between people who never protected us in the first place. We are exhausted from surviving the trauma and then surviving the politics that swirl around it."

She continued, "When survivors travel to speak, to advocate, to stand for the truth, we do it with our own money from our own pockets, carrying our own fear, shaking in our own bodies. There is no team. There is no paycheck. It's just us hoping our voices make a difference. And it puts a pit right in your stomach because you know you're standing on the right side of history, but standing on the right side of history is not a comfortable place to be. It never has been."

REPRESENTATIVE RO KHANNA, California Democrat, asserted, "These rich, greedy men abused American values. They abused what's sacred about this country... and it is time that they're going to have a reckoning. The Epstein class is going to go, and the reason they're going to go is because the progressive Left and the MAGA right, and everyone in between, is finally waking up against this rotten system."

HALEY ROBSON, another Epstein accuser, held up her childhood portrait outside the Capitol saying, "I want everybody to take a look. I know everybody sees us today as grown adults, but we are fighting for the children that were abandoned and left behind in the reckoning. This is who you're fighting for. This is who Congress is fighting for. This is who the House of Representatives are fighting for, and hopefully the Senate will fight for us, too."