A top House Democrat, Jamie Raskin, is accusing that Donald Trump “systematically dismantled the offices and programs we rely on to combat human trafficking and prosecute sex crimes.” This news comes as the president is facing continued pressure to release investigative files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Raskin, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, laid out his argument in a memo, that The Guardian found, to Democratic members of the committee, ahead of testimony scheduled by FBI director Kash Patel. According to Raskin, “President Trump in office has repeatedly taken the side of criminal sex predators and violent abusers against their victims, and this pattern goes well beyond his strenuous efforts to bury the Epstein Files.”
