Indian-origin congressman Ro Khanna has become as one of the leading reasons of President Donald Trump’s biggest setback of the year, after the House voted 427 to 1 to force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The overwhelming vote stunned both MAGA and progressives. The episode has been described by former Trump loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene as an event that “ripped MAGA apart.” And at the centre of the push was Khanna, a Democrat from Silicon Valley who spent months stitching together an unusual coalition across the aisle. Khanna’s role became visible only after the vote succeeded. His Republican co-sponsor Thomas Massie described their odds at the beginning as “about 4 per cent.” Yet the victory has placed Khanna directly in the national spotlight as the Democrat who deli

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