'Trying to hide?' Dem reveals the one Epstein witness Republicans are scared to call
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has moved forward with a plan to partially release information from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case — but House Democrats, including ranking member Robert Garcia (D-CA), are not satisfied with this limited production.
And furthermore, Garcia told MSNBC's "The Weeknight" panel on Tuesday, they've left out a massively important witness from all this: President Donald Trump's former Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta, who as a former federal prosecutor, helped Epstein escape justice in the first place.
"James Comer's spokesperson, responded today to you," said anchor Eugene Daniels. "They said, you're trying to invent a crisis where none exists. And at the end, they said former Attorney General Bill Barr testified that he never saw any evidence suggesting President Trump committed a crime. Now, they have been very specific about committing a crime, but are they lying in that statement based on what you heard?"
"Without actually commenting on exactly that statement, I will say that's a very — that's a very creative crafting of a statement," said Garcia. "And I think that if they have nothing to hide, they should release the complete transcript or video of the Bill Barr deposition. So let's do that and let's let the American public make their own judgments."
"I also think it's important to know that Bill Barr is hand-picked, along with other Trump administration officials, that the Republicans actually want to bring in," Garcia continued. "We have been saying, where's Alex Acosta? The person that knows more about Jeffrey Epstein, about the sweetheart deal that Acosta helped create, about what's actually in the documents, in the records? The person that navigated and knows more about this than maybe any single living person in the United States is Acosta. What is James Comer and the Republicans trying to hide in not sending a subpoena to Alex Acosta?"
"I've told the Oversight Committee, and I've told Comer himself, that if they choose to not be proactive on that Acosta subpoena, Democrats will work to force a vote on Republicans in the Oversight Committee when we get back from this recess," he added.
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