[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 194 (Tuesday, November 18, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H4716]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                    STANDING WITH TRUTH AND JUSTICE

  (Ms. Stansbury of New Mexico was recognized to address the House for 
5 minutes.)
  Ms. STANSBURY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to stand with truth and 
justice, to stand with every survivor of sexual assault, and to demand 
the release of the Epstein files now. I say to the one man on planet 
Earth who has the power to do so, Mr. President, it is time to release 
the files.
  Today, we vote on a resolution to release these files, but we have 
already subpoenaed them, and the President has refused to comply, 
engaged in a monthslong coverup right before our very eyes, threatening 
and pressuring Members of Congress, and even calling his own allies 
traitors, and this legislation a hostile act.
  Well, Mr. President, the irony is not lost on us that such desperate 
attempts to evade accountability are at the heart of the matter itself, 
as the Epstein case is, at its core--its dirty, rotten core--about rich 
and powerful men who abuse the system to avoid accountability and who 
engaged in unspeakable crimes and believed that they could do anything 
to any woman or any little girl and get away with it because they knew 
their friends in powerful places would protect them or they could 
simply buy their way out of the justice system.
  Well, we are here today to stand up with the survivors and say: Time 
is up. We demand accountability.
  Now, it is also not lost on me that I am standing in this Chamber, in 
this seat of power from which wars have been launched and the fates of 
millions have hung, a Chamber where in the nearly 250 years of this 
great Nation, only 3 percent of the people who have ever stood here on 
this floor have been women. That is why we must stand up, why we must 
demand accountability, why we are not saying ``pretty please.'' We are 
engaged in a criminal investigation of criminal behavior in a justice 
system that has failed women and girls who were raped and who were 
abused and of the powerful people who never were held to account.
  We are not, Mr. President, as you have asked us, just going to move 
on. We will continue to pursue justice to the end.
  Let me tell you about this investigation, about the evidence that has 
come in just in the last week from documents produced by the Epstein 
estate, including over 1,600 mentions of you, Mr. President. There are 
emails, court documents, and statements about a lawsuit by a woman 
accusing Donald Trump of rape at Jeffrey Epstein's house, whether it 
happened or not. There is a sexual assault suit against Epstein in 
which Donald Trump appears to have been subpoenaed, served, and 
deposed. There are sworn statements and court documents from a 16-year-
old who was recruited at Mar-a-Lago and then raped and groomed, not 
only by Jeffrey Epstein, but his rich and powerful friends.
  There were statements from Epstein himself, who said Trump knew about 
the girls. In fact, Trump, by his own admission, knew that Epstein and 
Maxwell were recruiting young girls from Mar-a-Lago. There were also 
statements that Trump was at Epstein's house, including with girls, in 
which Epstein bragged about having pictures and passing a woman to 
Trump, and noted that Trump spent hours with one of the victims and was 
the ``dog that hasn't barked.''
  These files also include financial transactions between Epstein and 
Trump. There are discussions of financial affairs, potential money 
laundering, including in real estate deals. There was also an admission 
by Jeffrey Epstein himself that he was facing a mandatory minimum of 10 
years in Federal prison, yet the DOJ failed to prosecute him. There are 
statements by Epstein that he believes that Donald Trump was involved 
in the case.
  I say to the American people: There is a mountain of evidence in 
front of your very eyes. Believe your eyes. It is right there in front 
of us.
  Mr. President, let me say this to you: You can run, but you cannot 
hide because the survivors know what happened.
  To every woman and little girl who has wept or felt shame or believed 
that you were alone or that the system had failed you, to every parent 
who has feared the absolute worst, and to every survivor who believed 
the system was rigged against them, know that you are not alone. We see 
you. We are fighting for you, and we will not stop.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Members are reminded to direct their remarks to the Chair rather than 
a perceived viewing audience and to refrain from engaging in 
personalities toward the President.

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