A reading room full of millions of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is set to hit the road, with one organizer telling MS NOW the American people will finally be able to see the “totality” of the “shocking” documents for themselves. The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial bookmobile, a portable version of the pop-up museum unveiled in New York City in May, plans to make stops across the country, showcasing evidence organizers hope will be “impossible to look away from.” 

Miles Taylor, who served in the White House during Trump’s first administration and is now a co-founder of DEFIANCE.org, which partnered with the Institute for Primary Facts on the bookmobile, joined MS NOW’s Jen Psaki to discuss the project and why he believes “no episode epitomizes [the president’s] corruption better than what has happened with the Epstein files.”

On Tuesday’s “The Briefing,” the former Department of Homeland Security official revealed his doubts about the power of the exhibit until he saw it for himself. 

“When I went up to New York City, still having talked with them for months about this, I thought, you know, it’s interesting, but is it going to feel like an exhibit worth visiting?” he recalled. “I walked in, I went downstairs, I saw six survivors, half of them in tears. People were moved by this exhibit. And it wasn’t just Epstein survivors. Strangers coming off the street to come tour the thing — if they could get a ticket because it was sold out — they were so moved by just seeing the totality of the files.”

Taylor said the mobile pop-up museum gives Americans the chance to “actually pull something off the shelf” and realize for themselves that this is not “a scandal that’s been hyped in the media.”

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Allison Detzel

Allison Detzel is an editor/producer for MS NOW. She was previously a segment producer for “AYMAN” and “The Mehdi Hasan Show.”