Women who survived abuse by Jeffrey Epstein have come together to push the US Congress to release the files on the sex trafficker.

Epstein survivors speak out again

In the powerful new film by World Without Exploitation, survivors hold up photos of themselves at the age they were when they first met Epstein. In the video, they say:

I suffered so much pain

Some were as young as 14 when they met their abuser, who trafficked teen girls all over the world to be abused by powerful men. One woman explains that there are “about a thousand” fellow survivors.

The public service announcement (PS) is a call to action for the American public to email their representative in Congress, asking them to support the survivors. This comes ahead of an expected vote to release the files on Tuesday.

One survivor who features in the video, Danielle Bensky, told NBC

Many people scroll and they see our stories, and they want to find a way to advocate, and they’re not really sure how. We really want to tell people that you can get out there and you can do this for yourself and be a part of what’s starting to really feel like a movement

Evidence ever-mounting against Trump

Last week, a huge cache of emails from Epstein to people such as his brother and Ghislaine Maxwell implicated powerful men even further. These were especially damning for US president Donald Trump. In one email, Epstein says:

I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body.

The most bizarre part of the emails was that they seemed to suggest that Trump received oral sex from former President Bill Clinton, and even weirder, that Vladimir Putin took photos of the act.

The emails follow a document leak in September, which implicated Trump, Peter Mandelson, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon and more. They also led to Prince Andrew losing his royal titles, fucking finally.

Up until now, Trump has dismissed the files as a smear campaign from the democrats. He even attacked one of his long-time supporters, Marjorie Taylor Greene, last week when she informed him that she would be voting for the files to be released. However, it’s worth pointing out that her texts lay the blame at Democrats’ doors and she still supports Trump.

Just three days ago he posted on his Truth Social platform:

The Democrats are using their withering power to push the Epstein Hoax again

He also called Republicans who supported the call for the files to be released “weak” and “soft and foolish”.

However, on Truth Social last night, Trump said:

House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide

This, to be fair to him, is true, but only because they can’t really hide it now that the emails are out there.

He did, though, still call it a hoax, continuing:

And it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent Victory on the Democrat ‘Shutdown’

The vote is expected to happen tomorrow, but let’s see what tricks the Trump White House tries to pull next to wriggle out of it. Overall, though, the fact that survivors of Epstein’s horrific abuse have to beg elected politicians to serve them a morsel of justice in the first place says all you need to know.

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By Rachel Charlton-Dailey

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