After experiencing what they call years of legal setbacks, limited liability and delayed justice, several survivors of the abuse of Jeffrey Epstein say they see an opportunity for Congress to provide transparency desperately necessary on the crimes of the dishonor.
In an interview on Wednesday with Linsey Davis of ABC News, seven women who say that Jeffrey Epstein exploded them sexually begged before the Congress and the Trump administration that releases the hundreds of thousands of remaining archives related to the sexual offender, a step that hopes to show the public the scope of Epstein’s actions and allow their victims to heal.
“Now it is the responsibility of the Congress to approve a bill so that we do not have to take the witness of being the ones who enforce this,” said Anouska de Georgiou. “This is not our work. We have done our job. We have been responsible for informing, so I want transparency.”
The Department of Justice and the FBI announced in July that no additional EPStein archives would be published, causing a recoil of the magician supporters who for years had accused the government of protecting information about Epstein, the rich financial and sentenced sexual offender who died for suicide in a New York prison in 2019.
On Monday, the Government Supervision and Reform Committee of the House of Representatives published tens of thousands of records of the Department of Justice related to Epstein, which represents only part of what the Committee has cited of the Department of Justice. An ABC News analysis determined that most of the documents published on Monday had already been made public.
The seven women said that the continuous attention to Epstein and his associated, convicted conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, brings them closer to responsibility, while at that time forces some of them to revive years of trauma inflicted by the dishonored financial.
Exhausted by decades of delayed justice, they urged legislators to join behind the survivors of their abuse, instead of letting conspiracy theories and speculation thrive in a vacuum created by the refusal of the Trump administration to disseminate any additional document.
Jeffrey Epstein Survivors, Front Row LR: Jena Lisa Jones, Chauntae Davies, Courtney Wild, Anouska de Georgiou, Lisa Phillips, Back Row Row LR: Brittany Henderson, Attorney For Epstein/Maxwell Survivors, Marina Lacerda, Haley Robson and Brad Edwards Epstein/Maxwell Survivors Are interviewed by Linsey Davis of ABC News.
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“As soon as I see these things in the news, it takes me out of my healing trip and, alone, you know, pushes me back to a survival mode,” said Courtney Wild. “It’s just a round trip, mental exhaustion is fair, I’m ready for it to be done.”
Even when Epstein’s abuse survivors arrive in Washington, DC to encourage legislators to act, some of the women said the politicization and armament of their abuse continue. Hours before they sat for a group interview with ABC News, President Donald Trump dismissed the impulse of transparency as a “democratic deception that never ends.”
Haley Robson, who identified himself as a Republican, responded to Trump’s statements by asking the president to meet with the survivors to understand the personal cost they have paid after years of delayed responsibility.
“These are young women who were abused and mistreated and then lied to, Gaslit, and their trauma armed them to obtain political profits,” Robson said. “I will be more than happy to meet him halfway. I will come to him if he needs me. I would love to sit so I can look at my face and tell me that I am a hoax.”
According to some of the women, the refusal of the Trump administration to publish any additional document was a surprise, since Trump, in the campaign, had promised more transparency of the government. Brad Edwards, a lawyer who represents Epstein’s survivors, added that materials contain incriminating information about the president depending on the experiences of his clients.
“Not a single victim said he abused,” Edwards said. “We have seen a lot of information in the files, and there is no reason why it is not only transparent and allows it to come out.”
Jeffrey Epstein Survivors, Front Row LR: Courtney Wild, Anouska de Georgiou, Lisa Phillips, Back Row LR: Haley Robson and Brad Edwards, lawyer for Epstein/Maxwell survivors, are interviewed by Linsey Davis of ABC News.
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De Georgiou said Maxwell introduced Trump in the 1990s when he was twenty years old. She said she thought Maxwell presented her “as an offering of me to leave [Trump]”But that” there was no impropriety on the part of President Trump. “
Offering to sit down with Trump to share his experiences, from Georgiou said he hopes that the president will continue his vote of disseminating more information about Epstein.
“There should be no concern on the part of President Trump to reveal these files because no accusations have been made,” he said. “I am happy to sit and give it the assurance that only the truth will be discussed and that this is not a kind of witch hunt.”
“It’s about defending this cause, not only for us, but for all young women and children who expect to see what options Congress will take now, what elections this administration will do, and if they will be on the correct side of the story,” said De Georgiou.
While the Trump administration has made a limited effort to meet with the victims and understand their concerns, the attached attorney general Blanche traveled to Florida last month for a two -day interview with Maxwell. Some of the women criticized the decision of the Trump administration to listen to Maxwell despite having made false statements to the authorities.
Shortly after the interview, Maxwell was transferred from a federal prison in Florida to a field of federal prisoners in Texas, contributing to his concerns that he could escape the responsibility despite his conviction.
“I still feel fearful of her,” said Chauntae Davies. “It will probably come out in some way. I feel it is like a slow transition to free it from prison to basically as a summer camp.”
Instead of showing Maxwell clemency or continuing to retain public records, women urged the Trump administration to do the right thing by Epstein victims by publishing documents.
“You have the power to be transparent. You have the power to unite both parties in the United States,” Robson said about Trump. “For the first time in my life, I am seeing the opportunity here, an opportunity that not only can benefit women sitting on stage and our lawyers, I am seeing an opportunity for you, not partisan, to unite the Democratic and Republican festivities and implement this.”
“How wonderful that would that be?” Robson said. “How good would it be to reach the same page and have the same agenda for once?”
