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A national reading room and bookmobile aimed at drawing attention to the Jeffrey Epstein files will begin a tour Sept. 8 in Dallas, just ahead of the Republican midterm convention in the city that’s poised to feature Trump, and appear in battleground states and districts through Election Day, organizers told NBC News.
Called the “Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room,” the traveling exhibit offers up some 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files released by the Trump administration due to a law passed by Congress. It is organized by the nonprofit Institute for Primary Facts and the anti-Trump group Defiance.
The bookmobile has been trotted out earlier this year, appearing in Washington in July. Now, the groups say it will make two-dozen stops in states such as Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa and Florida across eight weeks leading up to the Nov. 3 midterm election.
Supporting the effort are Epstein survivors like Dani Bensky, who has called on the Justice Department to prosecute Epstein’s fellow perpetrators.
Bensky said in a statement: “The magnitude of the 30+ years of the Epstein sex trafficking network is on full display to all who visit. In the more than 3 million files that line the walls, there are 1200+ young lives, dreams, and futures destroyed. Our government — and specifically this DOJ — must take responsibility for its negligence. We deserve a system that works.”
The Republican National Committee didn’t immediately return a request for comment. Attorney General Todd Blanche met with a group of survivors ahead of his Senate confirmation, and he said afterward that he wants to be able to give survivors justice in the form of prosecutions, though he didn’t make commitments.