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Rogue Republican Massie Drops Melania Epstein Files Bomb

“The first lady knows that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t act alone,” Thomas Massie said as he vowed to name names from the Epstein files.

Rep. Thomas Massie has claimed that Melania Trump “knows” Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running his child sex abuse ring alone.

Massie, 55, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday and confirmed that he personally planned to reveal more names from the Epstein files after a lack of clear action from the acting attorney general.

“Todd Blanche is violating the law. There’s still millions of files they haven’t released,” he said.

“We know from talking to the victims’ lawyers that their own 302 forms haven’t been released. We know the files have been over-redacted. I have released at least three names of billionaires who are implicated in this.”

The Republican, who lost his House primary last week, added, “I don’t think it’s possible to get to convictions with Todd Blanche at the top and with the FBI director, Kash Patel, at the top, because they have effectively both perjured themselves by saying there’s nobody else in the files.”

He then claimed of Donald Trump’s wife, “Even Melania doesn’t believe that. The first lady knows that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t act alone.”

Massie concluded that the truth he—and, supposedly, Melania Trump—knows will ultimately come to light. “And here’s the great thing, Kristen. Whether I’m in Congress or not, the Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, and it goes on for years,” he said.

“So, if we can’t get this attorney general and this FBI director to do the right thing, the next ones who take those seats are obligated by law to release the files that these individuals are not releasing now.”

The first lady’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Melania has also called for further investigation into the events surrounding Epstein, after professing her own lack of relationship with the man during a surprise public address last month.

While asserting she was neither one of Epstein’s victims nor introduced to Donald Trump by the financier, Melania, 56, called for public congressional hearings on behalf of survivors, a move some critics say could cause further pain.

Massie was at the forefront of the push for the release of the Epstein files, sparking a torrent of hate from the president.

The Trump critic has vowed to spend his final seven months in office continuing to push for transparency, having joined Ro Khanna in naming billionaire Leon Black, banker Jes Staley, and businessman Leslie Wexner as three names originally redacted in the files—along with six others they described as “likely implicated” in Epstein’s orbit.

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