King Charles III is anticipated to say convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein’s victims in his handle to Congress, Rep. Ro Khanna mentioned Tuesday.
At a morning roundtable with the late financier’s victims of abuse, the California Democrat mentioned that he met with the British ambassador, who advised that the king would acknowledge them in his Tuesday speech within the Capitol.
“I hope his flunkies don’t take out the acknowledgment from his textual content, and I absolutely anticipate the king to be acknowledging the survivors — the Epstein survivors — in his speech to our nation and Congress this afternoon,” Mr. Khanna mentioned.
He had been calling for the British monarch to satisfy with survivors, however the king and Queen Camilla beforehand mentioned they’d not. In response, Mr. Khanna mentioned he was “upset.”
“I believed the king owed that to the survivors, given his brother’s severe allegations of abuse,” he mentioned Tuesday, referring to the arrest and investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, previously Prince Andrew, for misconduct in public workplace over his ties to Epstein.
“I believed it could have been an unbelievable second, an announcement to indicate that it doesn’t matter how a lot wealth you’ve gotten, how a lot energy you’ve gotten, no human being is dispensable,” the congressman mentioned, including that “the survivors deserve justice.”
The Epstein Recordsdata Transparency Act, of which Mr. Khanna is a co-author, included the general public launch of paperwork that detailed Epstein’s connections to Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor.
Upon studying of his brother’s arrest, Mr. Charles mentioned he has the “deepest concern” about potential misconduct, agreeing with a “full, honest and correct” investigation.
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