Cory Booker Calls Out Republican Trump And Epstein Hypocrites

Sen. Cory Booker said that Republicans have abandoned their constitutional duties, and pointed to the fact that if the Epstein scandal involved a Democrat, Republicans would be howling for hearings.

The hypocrisy is blatant. Republicans in Congress are stone silent as Donald Trump’s birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein has been published.

The White House line is that the letter is fake, but in normal times, this would be a situation where Congress would step up and investigate.

However, as Sen. Cory Booker pointed out, Republicans are doing the opposite.

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Sen. Booker said on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes:

We know this was an awful man who did horrific things, that there are real victims to his crimes. And so when you have leading figures in the trump administration, from the head of the FBI to our attorney general telling the public that there is there there that there are mountains of evidence to implicate people in serious, serious crimes, and then all of a sudden to turn on a dime and to say, there's nothing to see there. Something is seriously…