Khanna shared an excerpt from Trump on Air Force One Sunday, in which he was asked about the king’s action against his 65-year-old brother. The king’s action also led to Andrew, who now goes by the name Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, being evicted from his 30-room mansion on the royal estate and potentially getting into trouble. vulnerable to questions by the FBI, Congress and Parliament over his association with Epstein and his alleged abuse of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of the late financier’s minor sex trafficking victims.
“I feel really bad,” Trump said in the clip. posted on X. “It’s a terrible thing that happened to the family. It was a tragic situation. It’s a shame. I feel sorry for the family.”
Khanna then told Trump: “The tragedy is Andrew losing his title and you feel bad for the royal family? No, Mr. President. The tragedy is the more than a thousand victims of sexual abuse.”
In his post, Khanna also wrote: “Pass @RepThomasMassie and my bill to release the Epstein files.”
Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, have led the charge a bipartisan effort to force the US Department of Justice to release all its files on Epstein. The one-off “international money man of mystery” died by suicide in August 2019 while in federal custody. He had been arrested for the second time on charges that he had trafficked dozens of underage girls to his wealthy and politically connected friends. He previously served 13 months in a Florida prison after pleading guilty in 2008 to a lesser charge of soliciting a minor into prostitution.
The Epstein files and Andrew’s association with the pedophile have become a thorny issue for both the royal family and Trump.
Andrew has vehemently denied ever having sex with Giuffre or knowing about Epstein’s sex trafficking of underage girls, but recent news that his friendship with the pedophile continued for years after he publicly claimed it had ended has plunged the monarchy into crisis. That includes the publication of “Nobody’s Girl,” Giuffre’s memoir she wrote before she died by suicide earlier this year. In the book, she recalls having sex with Andrew three times in 2001, when she was still a teenager, and at the direction of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend. Maxwel was sentenced in 2022 of Epstein’s accomplice in his sex trafficking operation and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Including British politicians and editors have called for greater responsibility from the head of state and his family, whose official activities and homes are supported by British taxpayers.
Meanwhile, Trump’s challenges with Epstein stem from the fact that he was once one of Epstein’s most famous friends, along with former President Bill Clinton and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Trump was quoted in a 2002 New York Magazine profile of Epsteincalling his Palm Beach neighbor a “great guy” and a lot of fun. The future president also said of Epstein: “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
In addition, images of Trump, and his future wife Melania, receiving Epstein, Andrew and Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 are circulating. During Trump’s first administration, he and the first lady also posed with Andrew in June 2019, during a state visit and while laying a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey. That visit took place the summer before Epstein’s arrest and mentioned suicide.
Trump also denies knowledge of Epstein’s sex trafficking operation and said he cut ties with him in the mid-2000s. But his administration has continued to face criticism for not following through on promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI officials to release the Epstein files. according to CNBC. Before Trump traveled to Britain in September and met Charles, several images of him and Epstein were projected at Windsor Castle.
When it comes to Trump’s expression of sympathy for the British royal family, he has often spoken of his admiration for the late Queen Elizabeth II, her son Charles and his son Prince William. The Guardian reported this. During his state visit, he praised the so-called special relationship between the United States and Great Britain and paid tribute to Charles.
Khanna does not appear to share Trump’s sympathy for Andrew’s family. On Friday, he issued a statement saying the former prince should be called to testify before his House of Representatives oversight committee, which is conducting an investigation into the government’s handling of the Epstein case. The Guardian reported this.
Khanna told The Guardian: “Andrew should be called to testify before the oversight committee. The public deserves to know who besides Epstein abused women and young girls.”
The House of Representatives investigation has so far resulted in the release of tens of thousands of pages of documents and statements from former top officials, according to The Guardian. The documents include a lewd drawing that Trump apparently made for Epstein’s 50th birthday.
Khanna and Massie have introduced a bill to force the disclosure of the so-called Epstein files, but Mike Johnson, the Republican House Speaker and a top ally of the president, has refused to put it up for a vote, The Guardian reported. To that end, Khanna and Massie have circulated a petition that would require the bill to be voted on if 218 House members sign it.
“This is what my efforts with Representative Massie have been about: transparency and justice for the survivors who bravely spoke out,” Khanna said.
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