They stopped in the blinding sun, in front of cameras without shadow in front of the Capitol for almost an hour and a half on Wednesday morning.
These more or less women had the worst in common: they had all been fixed and sexually abused by the financial Jeffrey Epstein and their ex -girlfriend and attorney Ghislaine Maxwell. Most were young teenagers when abuse began.
Now, as adults, with butterfly pins to symbolize their resistance, Epstein survivors joined as a group to demand that Congress stop playing, stop protecting the rich and powerful and pass the transparency law of Epstein's archives. They are not happy with the slow rhythm of the investigation of the Chamber's Supervision Committee, which has announced its production of thousands of documents, almost all of which are already in the public domain.
Written by the Democratic representative of California Rue Khanna and the republican representative of Kentucky, Thomas Massie, the law would require that the Department of Justice, the FBI, the Department of the Treasury and the national security agencies disagree and release everything they have in Epstein, regardless of the “shame, shame, shame, reputational damage or political sensitivity public, public figure, or foreign dignation. ” It is completely possible that there are prosecutions.
“The days of sweeping this under the carpet have ended,” said Anouska by Georgiou, who was a budding model in London when he was attracted to Epstein's hell and abused in their homes around the world. “Do not be wrong: my polished exterior is a shield that hides a wound that still bleeds. I am no longer weak, it is no longer helpless. I'm no longer alone.”
Speaking publicly for the first time on Wednesday, Marina Laceda, identified as victim No. 1 in Epstein's accusation in 2019 for minors's sexual trafficking, said he still did not completely understand the crimes committed against her for three years of abuse and exploitation. “There are people who know more about my abuse than me,” he said. “Documents could help me re -assemble the pieces of my life.” (After Laceda turned 17, he said, Epstein told him that he was “too old”).
President Trump, an Epstein friend, whose name, according to reports, appears numerous times in the files (but has not been involved in this particular scandal) promised his base during the 2024 campaign that would not oppose the files. In fact, in 2009, when the lawyer of the survivors, Brad Edwards, was building a case against Epstein, Trump was not only the first of the financial associates of the financial to respond to a citation but one of the few who did not try to dodge it.
“Mr. Trump called me exactly the moment when he was supposed to do it, he said he had heard that he had questions about Jeffrey Epstein and asked me how he could help,” Edwards wrote in his 2020 book “Implable Pursuit.” Trump, Edwards wrote, was not as close to Epstein as people assumed. When Edwards reminded Trump that he had called Epstein an “excellent type” in an article in New York magazine 2002, Trump said he was only doing a favor for Epstein and that Epstein had written the quotation himself. Trump seems to have forgotten all that.
“So, this is a Democratic hoax that never ends,” Trump said Wednesday, resorting to his favorite insult. On Friday, he blamed the “radical left” for keeping the problem alive.
Haley Robson told journalists on Wednesday that he was 16 and “making good grades and high aspirations for the university” when she was recruited by a classmate who asked her if she wanted to earn some money giving “an old rich one” a massage. Listening to Trump calling the Epstein scandal a hoax, he said, is like “being detention from inside out.” Robson, a registered Republican, offered to meet with the president, pleading: “Humanivanos. There is no deception.”
WHILE THE WHITE HOUSE HAS SAID THAT TRUMP WOULD Consider “A VERY Hostile Act” Should Any Republic Defied Him: Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Colorado Rep. Lauren Bobert and South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace, A Survivor of Sexual Abuse Who Emerged Tuesday from a closed door session with the survivors with tears running through their cheeks.
The 212 Democrats are expected to support the request, and two more republican firms are needed. The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, said he does not believe that republican support materializes, but Khanna told me Thursday that he is confident that at the end of the month. “The speaker does not count correctly,” Khanna said. “I really do not understand. It is about protecting the children of the United States. It is about restoring confidence in our government. It is about standing with the survivors. This should be beyond politics. It is a moral problem, and the survivors are the first people I see that they are joining this country. I mean, Marjorie Taylor Greene gave me a hug in the press conference.” (Unfortunately, global warming has made it impossible for hell to freeze, but still …)
Lisa Phillips, who organizes “from now on”, a podcast about survivors of sexual abuse, was overwhelming about what she and her survivors of Epstein are capable of not being afraid to speak.
“Epstein survivors of the United States have been discussing the creation of our own list,” Phillips said. “They are attentive for more details.”
The world of Maga with a conspiracy mentality is obsessed with the belief that a global pedophile network is protected by the highest levels of government. The launch of the Epstein archives would allegedly incriminate a large number of complicit liberal elites in child sexual trafficking and, as the guardian said once, “exposes moral rot in the heart of the democratic establishment.” Only God knows why these people think that Democrats have cornered the market in pedophilia and sexual assault.
It is true that in the case of Epstein, a rich and well -connected pedophile was protected for years. They gave him a virtual slap on his wrist after declaring himself guilty of requesting prostitution with a minor in 2008.
His world collapsed in 2019, after the stubborn persecution by survivors' lawyers and Miami Herald research reports led to new criminal charges. Epstein committed suicide in jail while waiting for the trial, depriving his numerous victims the opportunity to face him in court.
But they are no longer willing to wait, and they have no patience for Republican feet to crawl into the transparency law of Epstein files.
“We know who was involved,” Robson said. “We know the players, and we are sitting here for 20 years waiting for you to get up and do something. Well, guess what? Your time is ready and now we are doing it.”
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