RFK Jr. Had ‘No Idea’ About the Epstein Survivors Who Literally Just Spoke at the Capitol

“I don't know about any women on the steps of the Capitol," Kennedy said, when asked if he thought the Epstein survivors were a hoax.

By Audra Heinrichs  |  September 4, 2025 | 3:17pm
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RFK Jr. Had ‘No Idea’ About the Epstein Survivors Who Literally Just Spoke at the Capitol

On Wednesday, as many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein convened in the nation’s capital to urge government transparency in the decades-long public inquiry for the truth behind the disgraced pedophile financier’s infamous client list and his criminal enterprise. Their presence in Washington, D.C. this week has been highly publicized, and yet, at least one person in Donald Trump’s administration claims to have missed it.

During Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s painful and contentious hearing before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) blasted him for canceling over $500 million in mRNA vaccine development, calling him a “charlatan.” She tried to use the Epstein survivors’ recent press conference as an example of hoaxes being pushed by Republicans, but Kennedy had no idea what she was talking about.

“Do you think the women on the steps of the Capitol were a hoax yesterday?” Cantwell asked, quoting Trump’s characterization of Democrats demanding the release of the Epstein Files. Kennedy replied: “I don’t know about any women on the steps of the Capitol.”

“The women who were talking about Epstein,” Cantwell urged. “Do you think they were perpetuating a hoax yesterday?”

“I have no idea what they were saying. This is the first time hearing about it,” Kennedy answered. Imagine that!

“The first that you’re hearing about the women on the Capitol steps saying that they believe the Epstein information should be made public? That’s the first you’re hearing about it?” Cantwell stated. Kennedy, of course, had no response.

“What I’m saying is, you are perpetrating hoaxes, you, as the Secretary of Health, so you’re undermining the whole healthcare delivery system, and you keep trying to point to chronic disease, but you’re not putting solutions on the table to cover more Americans and you’re taking away the scene and technology that has made us the leader,” she concluded.

Kennedy didn’t have much else to say to Cantwell, but he did have a lot to offer about former CDC chief Susan Monarez, saying Kennedy told her to approve vaccine recommendations that had zero scientific basis in an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. He also called the mass layoffs in the CDC in June “absolutely necessary” and that the agency “failed miserably during covid.”

The worm continues to worm.

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