'A Massive Coverup Is Under Way': Yassamin Ansari Torches Trump And Republicans Over Epstein Files

In a social media post on Friday, Rep. Yassamin Ansari  (D-AZ) spoke about the Epstein files controversy.

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00:00Hi everyone. Last night we were at the Capitol unexpectedly again until after midnight because

00:06as you guys know the Republicans love to have these votes in the dead of night so that people

00:13hopefully miss all of the shitty things that they're doing. This time they decided to vote

00:19to cut funding for PBS and NPR which are obviously vital sources of news and information

00:26and alerts for my constituents and for Americans across the country. They don't want you to have

00:31that information and what they did was vote to cut this funding billions of dollars that was

00:37already approved by Congress. I really want to talk about the alarming authoritarian nature of how

00:48Republicans under the Trump regime are operating in terms of their attacks on the press. They've

00:54consistently been attacking the press. We know that Donald Trump is always going after journalists

01:01and outlets calling things fake news of course. Now they are defunding vital sources of objective

01:08non-partisan information via NPR and PBS. This is also the same week that Stephen Colbert was

01:17fired or his show was canceled late night with Colbert. Coincidentally after the parent

01:24company settled a massive lawsuit with Trump. This is extremely dangerous when you have,

01:33when you look at history and authoritarian, I think about this a lot because my parents fled an

01:37authoritarian regime decades ago. That's how they ended up in the United States and it is very much along

01:47the lines of what's happened in other countries when a government starts going after the press and they

01:54they go after universities, they go after citizens, they go after any sort of object, you know,

02:02civil society, let's say. I had a hearing this week with, in the Homeland Security Committee,

02:10Republicans were going after non-profit organizations like the International Rescue Committee and Catholic

02:14charities. So just want to call attention to this because this is what authoritarianism looks like.

02:21So that happened last night. The other big theme of this week is the massive cover-up of the Epstein

02:28files. We know Donald Trump is trying to completely distract from this issue. Suddenly he like he obviously

02:35called all of his supporters, he called them stupid and weaklings. Says it's crazy that anyone's even still

02:42talking about Epstein. So a massive cover-up is underway in that regard. There's a bipartisan resolution

02:50in Congress calling for the immediate release of the entire Epstein files and and demanding that there

02:58be justice for the crimes and there be accountability for the crimes. So and and Republicans are

03:06we're hearing a lot about how they are um they hate that this is happening and and only still only like

03:13nine or ten have signed on to the resolution. So anyways another long week, grueling week. Just wanted to

03:20keep you guys in the loop of what has been happening here. So we'll keep you posted and um thanks for

03:26everything that all of you are doing to fight back and um not give in to the authoritarian trump administration.