Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) credited MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell and his team for helping trigger the release of emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate by House Oversight Democrats on Wednesday that mentioned President Donald Trump.
The three bombshell emails, part of more than 23,000 documents recently obtained by the House Oversight Committee, included Epstein referring to Trump as the “dog that hasn’t barked” and talking about how an alleged victim “spent hours at my house with him.”
Republicans on the committee furiously accused the Democrats of trying to “create a fake narrative to slander President Trump” and later published the full tranche of documents.
Later he appeared on The Last Word to speak with O’Donnell, where he said he got the idea to subpoena Epstein’s estate from guest Bradley Edwards and praised the network’s team for connecting him with the guest:
In all of the news, you and your team really haven’t gotten the credit, but none of those emails would have come out – the emails with Jeffrey Epstein saying that Donald Trump was involved, that Donald Trump likely knew about this abuse – none of that would have come out if I wasn’t on your program, if your team had not booked Bradley Edwards, and if Bradley Edwards hadn’t made this obvious point, saying: ‘Why is the justice department, why is the FBI not subpoenaing Epstein’s estate?’
It was shocking to me. They hadn’t done that. And then Bradley Edwards said, ‘look, if you subpoena that estate, I’m confident that they will comply.’ And your team connected Bradley Edwards with our team. And that’s why we have these emails today, and that’s why many more emails are going to come out.
“So they’ve done an incredible public service,” he added of O’Donnell’s team.
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