What a wildly mendacious screed by Thomas Massie on the House Floor this week, calling for new Epstein-related prosecutions:
The only reason he’s able to pull this crap is because he knows he’s shielded by the Constitution’s “Speech or Debate” clause. Otherwise, he’d be sued for defamation — and rightly so.
Massie’s been thoroughly embarrassed over the past year, ever since the “Epstein client list” he was dramatically pledging to read on the House Floor never materialized. Strangely.
So to compensate, in the remaining several months he’s got left in Congress, Massie has apparently resolved to just stand there in front of the cameras whenever possible and proclaim that various people have committed prosecutable child-sex crimes. Based on supposed evidence that he still refuses to spell out with any candor or precision. Because virtually none of it would stand up to scrutiny.
As such, he continues to keep his charges purposely vague, and therefore perfectly tailored to low-information “viral moments” — fulminating like some courageous truth-teller to impugn a bunch of powerful-seeming persons as pedo-sex criminals.
That he even has the gall to do this after being caught in February 2026 defaming a bunch of random men as child-sex perpetrators — despite these men having no association whatsoever with Epstein — is astonishing. (Massie and his cohort Ro Khanna never even had the basic decency to apologize to the unsuspecting individuals they horrifically slimed.)
To take just a few examples of Massie’s most recent mendacity:
Contrary to his repeated intimations on the House Floor and elsewhere, Leon Black WAS extensively investigated by the Feds over allegations of heinous child-sex offenses — allegations which turned out to be totally fabricated. (See my two-part series in May 2026, HERE and HERE.) Massie would presumably know this if he’d ever actually bothered to read the “Epstein Files” he loves bloviating about so much. But he’s still remarkably ill-informed about the actual contents of his precious “files.” (By the way, does he still maintain that Epstein is currently alive — despite the crystal clear photos of Epstein’s dead body that Massie evidently also never bothered to view in the “files”?)
Similar to his pompously over-confident rants about Leon Black, Leslie Wexner was ALSO already investigated by the Feds, and similarly deemed to have no complicity in any pedo-sex crimes. Wexner even gave five hours of highly clarifying testimony to the House Oversight Committee earlier this year, which Massie has clearly also never bothered to take the time to review. Even the leading “victim” lawyer, Bradley Edwards, with whom Massie has otherwise COLLABORATED on the Epstein Files Transparency Act (and now, successor legislation) has stated publicly there are no grounds to implicate Wexner in any criminality.
Massie insinuates that there’s something suspiciously “convenient” about Jean-Luc Brunel dying in a French jail in 2022 — but he also “conveniently” fails to mention that the sole accuser whose claims landed Brunel in that jail, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, retracted key allegations against him in 2021, just like she would end up doing with so many of her other lurid “child sex-trafficking” fantasies.
Lapo Elkann? That’s a new one. To my knowledge, there’s never been a shred of an allegation made against this person of sex criminality tied to Epstein. Which would be odd if he’s actually guilty of something, since he’s a wealthy businessman, and there’s every reason to suppose such allegations would’ve been aired SOMEWHERE by this point — without Massie needing to debut them in the House of Representatives on September 1, 2026.
Eduardo Teodorani-Fabbri? Appears to be just another random exotic-sounding name Massie decided to throw in, despite a total absence of any known evidentiary basis for doing so.
Declaring as established fact that Prince Andrew “committed sex crimes in the United States too,” as Massie does, is laughable — and based solely on the wholly uncorroborated (as the DOJ itself found in 2019) and widely-retracted claims of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, along with her band of profit-seeking lawyers, who’re still hard at work continuing to monetize VRG’s massive trail of confabulations, 16+ months after her reported death.
(This brief overview of the mendacities contained in Massie’s floor speech is non-exhaustive, obviously.)
In short: another absurd, pathetic display by Massie — who’s an increasingly desperate individual, it seems, and ran back to DC to deliver this mendacious little diatribe the minute the House re-convened from August Recess.
If nothing else, Massie has proved beyond any reasonable doubt that he has zero qualms about shredding due process when it suits him politically, despite all the years he spent pontificating as some uniquely principled renegade “libertarian.”
God help us if he and his own gang of co-conspirators are really plotting out some sort of new electoral “movement.”
UPDATE: Massie is now running around claiming that the sex crime accusations he hurled out on the House Floor against 14 named individuals are based on secret evidence he’s purportedly received from secret sources. So much for “transparency,” I guess?
Thomas Massie has a few more months left in office and then he will disappear from the public view. He won't, in my opinion, be missed.
A demagogic swine.
He probably won’t be on TV much after he leaves office because he will be asked to cough up proofs.