Sky Roberts, the brother of the late Virginia Giuffre -- one of convicted late *** offender Jeffrey Epstein's earliest and most prominent accusers -- spoke out against the Department of Justice following a newly released and heavily redacted trove of files related toEpstein's case.
"It's a mixed bag of emotions today," Roberts told MS Now's Jen Psaki Friday night, noting that while there's a sense of "pride and joy" for Epstein survivors, he admitted, "It's kind of disappointing to see that our own Department of Justice is trying to continue to gaslight us."
The DOJ publicly released some of the photographs and files connected to Epstein's *** trafficking case after Congress passed a law last month giving the Trump administration 30 days to make them public.
The website launched by the DOJ makes PDF documents from the government's investigations into Epstein browsable and searchable. However, the administration released only some of the files, then drew more scrutiny after a photograph of a table drawer with photos of President Donald Trump inside disappeared from the site.
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House Oversight Ranking Member Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) criticized the quality of the release in an interview with CNN on Friday.
"In our initial estimation -- it could be that we're only getting about 10% of what the DOJ has," Garcia said. "And of that 10%, 5% of that has already been released. And the other 5% is highly redacted. So we're getting very little so far."
Roberts, who was joined by his wife Amanda on MS Now, also expressed dismay over the partial release.
"If it's 10%, that's a far stretch to the 100% that we asked for with the bill, and so to feel like you're continuing to be gaslighted is kind of a disappointing feeling, and it's not shocking," Roberts said. "Unfortunately, though, I think we hoped that they would do the right thing, but we expected for them to not."
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said he and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) are considering impeachment charges against Attorney General Pam Bondi, accusing her of not "complying with the spirit of the law."
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"The reality with the Department of Justice right now is that it's very clear that they have a different motive behind them," Roberts said. "It's another way to try to create this facade that they're actually doing something, when, in reality, they're actually not doing anything at all."
While Roberts said he credits the department for releasing some files, doubts remain.
"There's this little birdie in the back of your head that kind of says, 'Are you just releasing these because it's what you want us to see? Or are you releasing what needs to be seen by, not just the public, but even just for vindication for these survivors and to get real justice?'"