The Kentucky congressman has drawn the combined ire of President Donald Trump and Republican leaders for opposing much of the president’s agenda and leading the charge on the Epstein files. And he said his three GOP partners are coming under duress for signing onto his effort to force a vote on releasing them, against the wishes of party leaders.

“They came back and tried to get the four of us to take our names off of the petition,” Massie told Semafor after an event in his Northern Kentucky district. “They asked some of my colleagues who are co-signers. And they actually threatened them politically, not physically.”

GOP Reps. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Lauren Boebert of Colorado have also signed the petition along with every House Democrat.

Democrat Adelita Grijalva, who won the Arizona special election on Tuesday to fill her late father’s seat, is expected to put the discharge petition over the top when she is sworn in next week.

Massie said if Johnson uses parliamentary tactics to evade a vote that “there’s enough notoriety on this issue that people will know that he’s sweeping this under the rug.” He also said if there is language included in a bill to sideline the petition, those who vote for that bill are “part of the cover up.”