Another MAGA lawmaker said on Monday that she's lost all faith in the Trump Department of Justice to hold anyone in the U.S. accountable for the crimes of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) discussed the renewed calls for Trump's DOJ to arrest and prosecute people who aided in Epstein's crimes on a new episode of "Piers Morgan Uncensored" on Monday. Mace's comments happened at a time when authorities in the United Kingdom appear to be ramping up efforts to hold Epstein associates Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson accountable for their actions.
Mace said she has "no confidence in our justice system" to hold people in the U.S. accountable, like what is happening across the pond.
"I think it's a system of injustice," Mace said. "I think the way these victims and others are going to see justice, they're not going to go to jail, is to see people removed from boards, be publicly shamed out of civil society, and start to lose their companies. The dominoes are starting to fall, but they're not falling fast enough."
Last year, another MAGA lawmaker lashed out at the Trump administration for trying to protect Epstein's associates. Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, said that the president told her he would not pursue Epstein's accomplices because his "friends would get hurt." That comment led Greene to publicly shame the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files.
Mace added that she doesn't believe the Trump DOJ will pursue any more investigations of Epstein's crimes.
"Until people go to jail, people want justice, and that's the only way we're going to get it right now," she said.
