Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s intercourse ring Wednesday known as for the discharge of all recordsdata on the infamous pedophile and one mentioned the abuser’s “biggest brag” was his cozy relationship to President Trump.
“The truth is: Epstein had a free pass. He bragged about his powerful friends, including our current President Donald Trump,” mentioned Shauntae Davies, one in every of Epstein’s victims, at a dramatic press convention outdoors the U.S. Capitol. “It was his biggest brag, actually.”
“Jeffrey and Ghislaine (Maxwell) were very vocal about their friends, their famous and powerful friends,” Davies added. “Jeffrey Epstein’s biggest brag forever was that he was a very good friend with Donald Trump. He had an 8-by-10 framed picture of him on his desk with the two of them.”
One other Epstein sufferer emphatically pushed again towards Trump’s effort to show the web page on the furor over the intercourse ring and urged him to take heed to their testimony.
“This is not a hoax,” mentioned Haley Robson. “We are real human beings. This is real trauma.”
However Trump refuses to again down. In a unprecedented cut up display second seconds after the press convention ended, Trump repeated his declare that the firestorm over Epstein is a partisan “hoax” designed to detract from his supposed achievements.
“It’s a Democrat hoax that never ends,” Trump mentioned at an unrelated White Home occasion. “It’s totally irrelevant to the success we’ve had as a nation since I became president.”
Epstein & Trump At Mar-A-Lago
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Jeffrey Epstein (left) and actual property developer Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Seaside, Fla., in 1997. (Picture by Davidoff Studios/Getty Photos)
The drama comes as a bipartisan group of lawmakers, together with a handful of right-wing Republicans, push Trump and Republican congressional leaders for way more transparency on the investigation into Epstein, who killed himself whereas awaiting trial in 2019.
The GOP-led Home Oversight Committee this week publicly posted some recordsdata it has obtained from the Justice Division on the intercourse trafficking investigations into Epstein and Maxwell, his convicted confederate.
However critics say virtually all of the paperwork had been already public and the trouble was a brazen effort to deflect consideration from the mounting strain in Congress to pressure extra disclosure within the case.
Demonstrators protest the insurance policies of President Donald Trump, the Congress, and the delay within the Epstein investigation as lawmakers return from the August recess, on the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. (AP Picture/J. Scott Applewhite)
The Epstein survivors, a few of whom have by no means spoken in public earlier than, supplied a strong human aspect to the political drama roiling the nation’s capital over the notorious scandal.
“(Our) voices matter, (our) stories must not be forgotten,” mentioned sufferer Anouska de Georgiou. “This is about ending secrecy wherever abuse of power takes root.”
Annie Farmer, who says she and her sister had been abused by Epstein and Maxwell greater than 20 years in the past, vowed to proceed the combat.
“We are not going away,” Farmer mentioned. “We are not going to be quiet and we are not going to give up.”
Marina Lacerda recognized herself as “Minor Victim No. 1” within the federal case towards Epstein. The Brazilian immigrant mentioned the federal government should assist the victims win justice and restore the injury achieved to them.
“The worst part is the government is still in possession of information that could … help me heal,” she mentioned. “I don’t have any of it.”
The victims sharply denounced the Trump administration’s therapy of Maxwell, together with transferring her to a soft minimal safety jail camp after she gave an interview to a high Justice Division lawyer and principally backed Trump’s claims that he wasn’t concerned in Epstein’s misdeeds.
They demanded Trump rule out pardoning Maxwell, a step he has refused to take.
“She participated in the abuse,” Robson mentioned. “This woman abused children….She was complicit.”
Initially Revealed: September 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM EDT
