WATCH: Rep. Min Slams Donald Trump For Epstein “Birthday Book,” Demands Justice for Survivors

Washington, D.C. - This morning, Representative Dave Min (CA-47), Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus' Ending Corruption Taskforce and member of the House Oversight Committee, slammed Donald Trump for his birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein, and demanded accountability for his repeated lies regarding the Epstein files. He appeared on CNN and demanded justice for the survivors of Epstein's crimes.

Watch the CNN segment here.

On the authenticity of Trump's letter:

"I am a lawyer. I was a prosecutor early in my career. I think we look at the weight of the evidence. Where did this letter come from? How is it produced? What's the chain of authentication here? The fact that it came from the Epstein estate and not from somewhere else. That it was only produced under a subpoena. Tells us a lot about the authenticity of this letter.

As you guys pointed out earlier, the signature seems to match, some of the language sounds a lot like stuff that Donald Trump would say. And again, I just look to the lack of honesty from Donald Trump and his cohorts over the last year on this whole topic. They've said that this whole thing is a hoax. You had Pam Bondi parading around 'the Epstein files, phase one.' You had her claiming that she had the Epstein list on her desk and then later walking that back. Somebody here is lying, and I think it's the Trump people, honestly."

On the Epstein cover up:

"Look, last week we had the opportunity to sit down with six survivors of Epstein's sex trafficking ring. Heard their horrific stories. But one thing that one of them said really stuck with me. Girls and young women around the world are watching right now to see what happens here. And that we, right now, those of us who care about justice, who care about protecting girls and young women. We owe a duty not just to these survivors, but to girls around the world right now to show that America is not going to tolerate a sex trafficking ring of this scope, not let this go unaccountable.

But unfortunately, what we've seen right now is a cover up that goes all the way to the top. Remember that back in July, Donald Trump called this whole thing a hoax and later denied that this birthday letter ever existed. Now, I want to just point out this letter was sent to the Oversight Committee by the Epstein estate. It didn't come out of the ether. It didn't come from some random place on the internet. It was produced by the Epstein estate and only under subpoena. So if if this is fake, as Trump is claiming, and note that this is not a person known for his honesty, nor is Karoline Leavitt or anybody else saying that this is, fake. They're not known for their honesty. Who would have given this to the Epstein estate, like, 30 years ago? That's the question they can't answer right now. This was produced to us. Nobody planted it. So it looks real to me.

But again, this looks like a cover up going all the way to the top. Going back to last year when, you know, you had Kash Patel, Pam Bondi promising to release the Epstein files, then refusing to do so once they actually realized that Donald Trump's name was all over these files."

On Trump's involvement in Epstein's inner circle:

"One of the things that all of the women spoke to us about was how they felt commodified. And they were between the ages of like 12 and 22 when they were victimized. And all of them felt like they were disrespected, that they were talked about as things rather than as people. And you saw that whole attitude permeate Epstein's inner circle. And I think at this point, it's clear that Donald Trump was part of that inner circle. So, and we've seen that in other aspects of Donald Trump's life when he talks about grabbing women by their genitals, when, you know, he talks about walking in on beauty pageants, unannounced so that he can watch women changing or girls changing. We've seen that this is just kind of the casual, misogyny, disrespect for women that we've seen come out of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

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"At this point, our job is to find justice for these survivors. And that means that we need to continue digging, knowing that there is a cover up, taking place right now. And I didn't say that we have proof. At this point, we have a lot of smoke. But Donald Trump's name is clearly mentioned multiple times. We've seen him lie over and over about things that we now know to be true. So again, I think that we, as the Oversight Committee deserve, we owe an obligation to the girls, the American people out there, to keep digging, and find out the truth, whoever's involved."

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