Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, who sponsored the invoice to pressure the discharge of the recordsdata, mentioned he was shocked by the president’s help for the vote after months of pushback.
“I used to be very shocked,” Khanna mentioned Tuesday on “CBS Mornings.” “He was preventing Thomas Massie and me for 5 months. They shut down Congress over this. They hauled in members of Congress to the scenario room to attempt to get them off the petition. That they had the members of the Cupboard intimidate them. Donald Trump un-endorsed Marjorie, Taylor Greene, threatening different members to not vote for our invoice.”
Khanna continued that he believed that “there have been going to be 70, 80 Republicans who would have voted for this invoice in defiance for him. I am glad that he mentioned he is signing it.”
The California Democrat outlined two issues that he sees as necessary going ahead: first, that Mr. Trump meets with the survivors. And second, now that the president mentioned he’ll signal this invoice, he mentioned “they should not play video games within the Senate.”
“They need to take this up instantly and go it,” Khanna mentioned.
Khanna mentioned “as soon as the recordsdata are launched, I believe it will shock the nation.”
“There are wealthy and highly effective males who both abused these younger ladies or who’ve coated it up, and a few of these folks nonetheless are on company boards, they nonetheless have scholarships named after them, they’ve buildings named after them. And the American persons are going to be shocked once they be taught this. And what the survivors need is for these names to come back out and for them to be held accountable.”
Khanna added, “the details want to come back out, and whoever is caught up with it must be held accountable, Democrat or Republican.”
