Hakeem Jeffries: “Or it is, in fact, the case that the files are very damning…”

“Either Donald Trump and the extremists spent years lying to their own base about what was in the Epstein files fanning the flames of a conspiracy theory that people were being protected. Or it is, in fact, the case that the files are very damning in terms of what's in them. That's probably more likely than not the scenario that we'll confront. And that's why they're doing everything they can to hide them, including by unlawfully preventing Representative elect Adelita Grijalova from being sworn in.” (08:41–08:49)

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