Senator Dick Durbin from the Senate Judiciary Committee, a Democrat from Illinois, declined to promise the issuance of a subpoena for the flight records of the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
He indicated that as of now, there hasn’t been a request for such action. This response came during an inquiry by Fox News correspondent Hillary Vaughn on Capitol Hill following Senator Marsha Blackburn’s (Republican from Tennessee) push for subpoenaing the mentioned flight records.
“Chairman Durbin, can I ask you a quick question?” Vaughn asked. “Why won’t you subpoena Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs?”
“I don’t know anything about his flight logs,” Durbin claimed.
“But why don’t you subpoena them?” she pressed. “Why don’t you want to know?”
“I don’t know the issue,” he said. “I know who Epstein was, but I certainly don’t know anything about the issue.”
“Well, he was charged with sex trafficking,” Vaughn responded. “So why don’t you want to know who was utilizing his private plane?”
“This has never been raised by anyone,” he claimed.
“Well Senator Blackburn has wanted to subpoena them and there hasn’t been a vote in your committee,” Vaughn noted.
“She hasn’t said a word to me,” he claimed. “Not a word.”
“But aren’t you curious like what high profile or powerful people might be closeted predators and pedophiles? Doesn’t that concern you?” she asked. “Why won’t you subpoena them if you can?”
“It’s the first time anyone has raised it,” he claimed. “Thank you, Fox.”
FACT CHECK: @SenatorDurbin says we had not spoken ”one time” about my subpoena for Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs.
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) December 5, 2023
Maybe this will jog his memory. pic.twitter.com/wckJROJrU0
