She was invited for a massage. Epstein Victim: I Don't Believe Trump
Less than three hours later The U.S. Senate also unanimously approved the bill. Now President Donald Trump just needs to sign it, authorizing the public release of investigative materials surrounding decades of abuse against more than a thousand girls and young women. Together with the information, it will be made available names of members of royal families, politicians, diplomats and representatives of the business world.
On Tuesday evening, Trump showed little interest in the event. “I don't care whether the Senate passes the bill tonight or later. I want Republicans to focus on all of our great victories,” the US president said in his first reaction to the historic vote in the US Congress.
The reaction confirms the skepticism of victims like Haley Robson that the current administration is seriously interested in solving these crimes.
“We were noticed for the first time”
Robson's palms were sweaty as he arrived just before 1 p.m. At 3:00 p.m. he leaves the spectator stand in the House of Representatives. She followed the voting with other women who were victims of Epstein's abuse. There was a loud cheer when the Speaker of the House of Representatives announced the result.
– It seems unreal. To see that the promise has finally been fulfilled,” Robson told Die Welt in a trembling voice. She wiped tears from her eyes repeatedly. It took her 17 years to find the courage to talk about Epstein's crimes. — 17 years of silence. That's a long time for a child to endure such pain – she added.
Robson was 16 when she was invited to a “massage” at a West Palm Beach villa. For two years, she remained part of the huge network created by Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell.
— It was a very touching moment when all the representatives turned to us. We were noticed for the first time. But there's still a lot of work ahead of us, and this is just the beginning, Robson said. The 39-year-old added that she was skeptical about the “agenda” behind the change in the White House's position. — I have the impression that Trump and his government change their minds, and then suddenly at the last minute say they support us. I just don't understand it. I don't trust you. I don't believe Donald Trump.
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Coalition of Democrats and Republicans
Bitter political fight for the disclosure of documents started in July last year. Trump promised during the election campaign to release the records, and his justice secretary sparked huge protests over the summer, especially in the MAGA movement [ruch Donalda Trumpa Make America Great Again, Uczyńmy Amerykę znów wielką]. Pam Bondi stated that she had no list of Epstein's “clients”, would not release any further records, and that Epstein committed suicide in the summer of 2019 in a New York detention center. It was the final statement.
As a result, an unusual coalition of Democrats and Republicans emerged in the US Congress to force the release of the documents by law. While Trump loyalist Mike Johnson used his power as Speaker of the House of Representatives to block the process legislative, former MAGA icon and current Trump opponent Marjorie Taylor Greene has joined the opposition. Greene and other prominent Republican women appeared publicly with Epstein's victims and put enormous pressure on Trump.
The president underestimated this coalition and its support among his own supporters. According to a survey conducted on Monday by Reuters and the Ipsos institute, only 44 percent Republicans support the way Trump is handling this issue. Just before the U.S. Congress voted last weekend, Trump changed his mind and called on Republicans to support the bill. Nevertheless, the US president continued to claim on Tuesday that the Epstein scandal was an “invention” of Democrats.
100 thousand file pages
It is not known what will happen after the disclosure of the documents, which according to the Department of Justice include over 100,000. file pages Famous names are also likely to appear. Larry Summers, Treasury secretary under former Democratic President Bill Clinton, announced his retirement from public life on Tuesday. He is listed in the files as are former British minister Peter Mandelson and Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, brother of British King Charles III.
Haley Robson is not afraid of revealing documents. — I'm not afraid of anything. People who know that they are included in these files and will soon cease to be anonymous should at least fear embarrassment. And the disgrace they will now have to endure — because this shame was never ours, she said, with the loud support of the other victims who stood next to her.
Before Robson left the Capitol, she shouted: “We've had five administrations behind us and all five are to blame. They all need to come to justice and take responsibility for letting us down.”
