Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA10) was on “The Briefing with Jen Psaki” show. See below for what he had to say, including about Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to the United States who “possessed extensive social and business ties to Jeffrey Epstein and hold critical information pertaining to our investigation of Epstein’s operations.”
- Rep. Subramanyam: Mandelson was a “self-professed good buddy and best friend of Jeffrey Epstein. That’s what he wrote in the birthday book, that they were good pals, the best pals. And then we have a picture of him in his underwear next to a girl. We also have wire transfers up to $75,000 and more, more to his business partner as well, from Jeffrey Epstein. So you’ve got financial ties. You’ve got pictures with young women. He clearly knew Jeffrey Epstein very well over many years. And he was named the US ambassador from the UK. I mean, I wonder if Trump even knew about his associat[ian] with Jeffrey Epstein, because there’s so many people in Trump’s orbit now that are coming up as being associated with Jeffrey Epstein, Howard Lutnick now, for instance. He nominated Alex Acosta as his labor secretary, the guy who gave Jeffrey Epstein a sweetheart deal. So it’s everywhere, and you’re seeing accountability everywhere else but the Trump administration. And it’s infuriating. And so we’re going to keep pushing.”
- Rep. Subramanyam: “Les Wexner, over and over again, he bankrolled the whole Epstein operation, was Epstein’s main client for a long time. He’s next week. And then we also have the executors of the estate that are coming up. But there are more and more people. Every time we get more documents, even with all the stuff that they’ve tried to hide at the DOJ, we get more and more names that we want to talk to. Whether it’s Peter Mandelson, I still want to talk to the former Prince Andrew as well. He clearly had a lot of information. He was clearly involved in some way. And the more documents we get, the more people we can talk to. But, you know, it’s harder with a U.K. citizen. It’s easier with U.S. citizens. And I certainly want to hear from Howard Lutnick more about what he knew as well.”
- Rep. Subramanyam: “You know, there’s been enough Republicans supporting us all along. Sometimes we drag them with us, House Oversight Democrats. Where the accountability stops is when we get to Trump administration officials. That’s where they draw the lines, it seems. They don’t want to have Trump administration officials come to the Oversight Committee as much. And the closest we got was Alex Acosta himself, who later on we found documents contradicting some of the things he told us. But we’re going to continue pushing. We don’t want this to be partisan. They’ve clearly made it partisan when it comes to protecting the Trump administration. But the Trump administration is continuing this coverup, and so we have to be very pointed about this and we have to talk to everyone.”
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