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Rep. Nancy Mace said so GOP women’s group Who challenged President Donald Trump by campaigning Jeffrey Epstein files to be released The Justice Department “ran out of patience a long time ago”.
South Carolina’s GOP joins forces with firebrand Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene And Lauren Boebert of Colorado is pushing to release the documents despite resistance from Republican House leadership and Trump’s Justice Department.
“I think we ran out of patience a long time ago, and we’re honey badgers, and so I hope … more of us will speak out,” Mays said. Hill.
After months of being dogged by the issue, Trump bowed to pressure this week and Congress passed legislation to release the Epstein files before the president signed it without fanfare on Wednesday night.
These women were among Trump’s most loyal supporters, but they refused to budge when the president pressured them to get access to Mace’s. Boebert asked to remove his name from the bid To begin voting on the release of documents.
Mace is a sexual assault victim who has spoken out How she was raped as a teenager She dropped out of high school before earning her GED and became the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, a prestigious military academy in South Carolina.
After meeting with survivors of Epstein’s abuse in September, she quickly left the room and was seen emotionally distressed.
Greene, meanwhile, has been ousted after rebelling against Trump on the matter, who last week branded her a “traitor.”
The MAGA faithful addressed the attack at a news conference ahead of Tuesday’s vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, along with the bill’s co-sponsors, California Democrat Ro Khanna and Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie, and a group of Epstein survivors.
“Let me tell you what a traitor is,” Green said. “A traitor is an American who serves foreign countries and himself. A patriot is an American who serves the United States and Americans, like the women standing behind me.”
The bill states that the Justice Department would be required to release the Epstein files within 30 days. But there are concerns that Attorney General Pam Bondi could withhold the documents, citing an ongoing investigation into Epstein’s ties to Democratic associates ordered by Trump last week.
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina said, “You can make adjustments to whatever investigation is going on, but if you take a full-blown crackdown, I think that’s going to anger a lot of people.”