CONCEALING PRESIDENT'S INVOLVEMENT WITH EPSTEIN

CONCEALING PRESIDENT'S INVOLVEMENT WITH EPSTEIN

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 49 (Wednesday, March 18, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 49 (Wednesday, March 18, 2026)] [House] [Page H2557] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] CONCEALING PRESIDENT'S INVOLVEMENT WITH EPSTEIN (Mr. Goldman of New York was recognized to address the House for 5 minutes.) Mr. GOLDMAN of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss this administration's massive coverup of the Epstein files in order to conceal President Trump's involvement. This coverup reached its apex last month when Attorney General Pam Bondi falsely testified under oath before the House Committee on the Judiciary. The Attorney General testified: ``There is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime. Everyone knows that.'' This is a lie. In the 3 million or so documents that the DOJ has disclosed to Congress under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, there is credible evidence that Donald Trump committed a crime. That, of course, excludes the nearly 3 million pages that the DOJ is refusing to turn over. Donald Trump is mentioned thousands of times in the Epstein files. There are multiple allegations that he sexually assaulted young girls, but I want to focus on one victim's allegations that the FBI unquestionably found to be credible. The DOJ tried to hide reports of three of the four interviews that this victim gave to the FBI, but pressure from the media and Congress forced them to disclose them. Now we know why. She credibly accuses Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was between 13 and 15. In each of her interviews, this victim recited the same account of her interaction with Donald Trump. On August 7, 2019, she explained that she was between 13 and 15 when she was left alone with Donald Trump, who ``mentioned something to the effect of, `Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be.' Trump unzipped his pants and put [her] head down, `down to his penis. [The victim] bit the [s] out of it.' Trump struck [the victim] and said words to the effect of: `Get this little [b] the hell out of here.' [The victim] advised she bit Trump's penis because he disgusted her.'' She provided some additional details in the next interview 2 weeks later. Then, a month later, she met again with the FBI and asked ``what the point would be of providing the information at this point in her life when there was a strong possibility nothing could be done about it.'' She didn't speak to the FBI again, but the FBI certainly found her story credible. In a 21-page PowerPoint presentation that the FBI made to prosecutors, they included this victim's testimony. They would not have done so if they did not find the evidence credible, which means that Attorney General Bondi lied when she stated under oath that there is no evidence that Donald Trump committed a crime. We are just scratching the surface because the Epstein files also reveal that Donald Trump has made false statements over the past quarter century about Jeffrey Epstein. We know, in 2002, he called him a terrific guy and said: ``It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.'' In a birthday card in 2003 that Donald Trump gave to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday, Donald wrote for himself: ``We have certain things in common, Jeffrey.'' ``Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?'' ``A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy birthday--and may every day be another wonderful secret.'' In that same year, Palm Beach County opened an investigation into Epstein that eventually was turned over to the FBI. The investigation became public in 2006, and the Palm Beach County police chief received a call quickly after from Donald Trump, where Trump told him: ``Thank goodness you're stopping him. Everyone has known he's been doing this.'' What innocent person calls the police chief about an investigation upon just learning about it? The recent documents also show that Jeffrey Epstein e-mailed Ghislaine Maxwell and said: ``I want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is Trump. [Redacted victim] spent hours at my house with him. He has never once been mentioned.'' Trump also denied that he ever went on Epstein's plane, but, of course, the Southern District of New York said that he was on his plane eight times, often with young women. The reason why this matters is because we don't have half of the Epstein files. If the Attorney General is covering this up in such a degree that she is redacting things from the public that she then shows to Congress, what else is she covering up? I will just show that this document here was redacted to the public. It was unredacted to Congress, and it completely disputes everything that Donald Trump has said about Jeffrey Epstein, about what he knew about the allegations, about his disgusting behavior, about whether he had ever been to Jeffrey Epstein's house, saying: ``I may have been there with my wife.'' Asked if any young girls were there, ``No. May have been children of guests, but that's it.'' Well, we know that is not the case. Now, why is this important? Because if the Attorney General is covering up this information that she then reveals to Congress, what else is she covering up about Donald Trump's involvement in the Epstein files? The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded again to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the President. ____________________