Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) slammed Republicans for trying to politicize the investigation into late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s associates.

The House investigation into Epstein resulted in a subpoena of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with some Republicans saying on social media that Democrats will be scared to pursue an investigation into Epstein because the Clintons might be implicated. Moreover, Republicans are hoping to draw attention away from the current president’s long friendship with Epstein and all the times he’s mentioned in the Epstein files that have been released so far by focusing on the Clintons.

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Ocasio-Cortez did not seem scared yesterday when asked about the Clintons agreeing yesterday to testify in the House about Epstein, stressing that the investigation should be bipartisan.

“Why haven’t so many people been prosecuted? Why have they continued to not be prosecuted?” she said, bringing up how the House passed a bill to get the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files, which still have not been fully released.

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“Why is Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice continuing to hide the majority of the Epstein files still, which they admit to the public contain much more, even more direct evidence of shocking, genuinely shocking crimes and sexual abuse of women, minors, and also increasingly men that are saying they were trafficked in connection to the Epstein orbit? And so we need to get to the bottom of it.”

Ocasio-Cortez said that she doesn’t care about what party a perpetrator belongs to; she wants people to be brought to justice. “I think at the end of the day, it does not matter if you are a- in terms of who is implicated in this, you’re a Republican, you’re a Democrat, you’re a donor, you’re a- I don’t, it doesn’t matter. We are talking about sexual crimes and trafficking of children, women, and victims of all kinds.”

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