Republican Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) pulled no punches in accusing his own party of complicity in an Epstein “cover-up” in a recent interview with James O’Keefe, the former Project Veritas founder and pro-Trump media personality.
“Is it that Republicans fear Trump so much that they agree with you privately?” O’Keefe asked Massie during the interview last week, which continues to grab eyeballs after the House released Trump’s birthday letter to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“Oh, yeah,” Massie replied as O’Keefe insisted, ‘Is that it?”
“That’s it. That’s it in a nutshell. I don’t think my colleagues are happy about covering up for pedophiles, but that’s what’s happening. And it’s so sick and twisted. The reason they’re doing it is because they’re terrified of President Trump’s political machine, not just his legislative affairs folks are reaching out from the White House to every Republican member of Congress who might think about co-sponsoring this,” Massie continued, adding:
They’re getting calls from the political machine that Donald Trump runs. We’ve got members of Congress who have aspirations of running for statewide office, and they can’t win a statewide office in a Republican primary with Donald Trump on the other side. So they’re terrified of him—with three big exceptions. Three women have co-sponsored this resolution: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Nancy Mace.
“Why aren’t they terrified of President Trump?” O’Keefe pressed.
“I think, number one, because they’re women, they feel obligated to take up for the women who’ve been abused,” Massie replied.
O’Keefe published a clip last Thursday of a Trump Justice Department official claiming that Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a different prison so she would keep “quiet.” The clip stunned many in the political world and those following the Epstein scandal, especially given that it came from a longtime MAGA loyalist like O’Keefe.
In the clip, an off-camera woman asks Joseph Schnitt, an acting deputy chief of special operations, about the Epstein Files and Maxwell – a convicted sex offender and Jeffrey Epstein accomplice. Schnitt told the woman that Trump’s DOJ transferred Maxwell “to a minimum security prison” and added that it was “against BOP policy because she’s a convicted sex offender. They’re offering her something to keep her quiet.”
Watch the interview above.
