House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Tuesday that Republicans want “maximum transparency” on the Epstein files, but stressed that they have a “dual responsibility” to protect the innocent victims of disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s “unspeakable sex crimes.”
“I’ve been on record very clearly that I believe in maximum transparency,” Johnson said Tuesday morning at the House GOP leadership press conference. “I think every single House Republican will say the same thing. In fact, they’ve told me that publicly and privately — they talk about this. We want maximum transparency.
“We also understand the other part of that duty is we have to protect innocent victims, OK?” he said. “We have to do both things at the same time. What do we mean by that? Look, involved in the Epstein evil — which is what it was, just call it what it was — there are innocent victims of those unspeakable sex crimes — some of them were minors, some of them were not.
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