Epstein case | Victims will assemble their “own list of names”

(Washington) Victims of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein declared Washington Capitol on Wednesday that they would confidentially compile their “own list of names” of people related to his sexual exploitation network, urging Donald Trump and the Congress to act for more transparency.

The Epstein affair, named after New York financier who died in prison in 2019 before his trial for sexual crimes, again ignited the United States since the government of Donald Trump announced in early July not having discovered any new element which would justify the publication of additional documents or the launch of a new investigation in this case.

The death, suicide according to the authorities, of Jeffrey Epstein has fueled countless conspiracy theories, according to which he was murdered to prevent leading personalities.

After having promised his supporters during his presidential campaign of the shattering revelations on this case, Donald Trump is currently trying to extinguish the controversy, which he again qualified Wednesday as “hoax” mounted by the democratic opposition.

“They are trying to make people talk about something that is completely negligible in view of the success we have had in this country since I was president,” said the Republican in the oval office of the White House, where he received Polish President Karol Nawrocki.

” Truth ”

His comments intervened at the same time as a press conference organized outside the Capitol of Washington in the presence of nearly ten victims of Jeffrey Epstein, relatives of victims, and lawyers representing them.

Several have in turn shown their history, calling on the American authorities to shed light on the financier’s sexual network.

“There is no hoax. The assaults were real, “said Haley Robson, who had been recruited to provide massages to Jeffrey Epstein when she was 16, and who says she was sexually assaulted in the early 2000s in her Florida residence.

“The government knows the truth,” she said at the press conference.

“We know who was involved (…) and we are 20 years later to wait until you are plumping and doing something,” she added, supporting the Lisa Phillips initiative, another victim present to the press conference.

She said she wanted to launch an operation to contact the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and assemble in a confidential manner a list of people related to her sexual exploitation network.

But the publication of the names will have to return to the government, she said, because the victims are for much afraid of reprisals.

Petition

A second press conference was held shortly after, organized by two deputies, the Republican Thomas Massie and the Democrat Ro Khanna, also in the presence of victims of Jeffrey Epstein.

The two elected officials, opposed on many subjects, jointly launched a procedure at the Congress to force the Trump administration to publish almost all the documents in his possession on the Epstein affair.

But the Republican President of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, opposes their initiative, and they therefore need the signatures of 218 deputies to force a vote on the issue.

If all 212 elected democrats signed this petition, only three Republican elected officials, in addition to Thomas Massie, did the same, due to the opposition of Mike Johnson to this initiative.

Thomas Massie, who is said to be one of the only Republican elected officials to dare to oppose Donald Trump, urged his colleagues on Wednesday “to find their courage”.

The day before, a commission of the House of Representatives had published more than 33,000 pages of documents related to the Epstein case in a desire for “complete transparency”, according to the head of this commission, James Comer.

But Thomas Massie denounced on Wednesday the fact that many pages were “cavilated”, while, according to him, 97 % of the content was already public.