Jeffrey Epstein victims' ad calls for files to be released, Trump urges GOP to vote for House measure

A radical of victims of Jeffrey Epstein successful a caller advertisement calls for Congress to walk a measurement to unit the Department of Justice to merchandise investigative files astir the notorious enactment offender, pursuing months of absorption to that by the Trump administration.

"Five administrations and we're inactive successful the dark," the advertisement says astatine the end, aft the victims clasp up photos showing themselves arsenic girls and young women, erstwhile Epstein began abusing them.

"Call your Congress subordinate and request they merchandise each the Epstein files," the advertisement says.

The advertisement comes 2 days earlier the House of Representatives is acceptable to ballot connected the measure.

On Sunday night, successful a large reversal, President Donald Trump urged House Republicans to ballot successful favour of the measure. Trump past week pressured legislature Republicans not to enactment a petition that forced the vote.

But helium present seems to admit the likelihood of the Republican-controlled House, and perchance the Senate, voting successful favour of the measure.

Trump and the DOJ for months person resisted demands that they merchandise the Epstein files aft Attorney General Pam Bondi reneged connected promises to marque those documents public.

"I was 17 erstwhile I met Jeffrey Epstein," said Danielle Bensky, 1 of the women successful the ad, said successful a statement.

"I was an aspiring ballerina moving unusual jobs to enactment my mother, who was battling a encephalon tumor, and to support up with my training," Bensky said.

"A pistillate told maine astir a affluent philanthropist who mightiness help. What began arsenic a accidental to wage for creation lessons turned into months of abuse," she said. "Epstein utilized my mother's unwellness to power me. He promised assistance and threatened to instrumentality it distant if I spoke. It took maine years to archer the truth, and I archer it present due to the fact that excessively galore radical inactive judge this communicative should enactment hidden."

Another victim, Annie Farmer, successful a connection said, "When I was 16, I trusted adults who told maine they wanted to assistance maine succeed. That spot was taken vantage of successful a mode that shaped the remainder of my life."

Farmer besides said, "The radical who shielded Epstein person had decades of protection. Survivors person had decades of unanswered questions. Sharing the remaining documents helps close that imbalance."

Trump, successful a Truth Social post connected Sunday, said, "House Republicans should ballot to merchandise the Epstein files."

"Because we person thing to hide, and it's clip to determination connected from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics successful bid to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our caller Victory connected the Democrat 'Shutdown,'" Trump wrote.

Despite Trump's remark astir Democrats, the measurement has been pushed by Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican. Massie has said that 100 oregon much Republicans successful the House mightiness extremity up voting for it.

Trump's station came aft a House committee released emails written by Epstein years aft his agelong relationship with Trump fell apart.

And it came days aft Bondi said the DOJ would, astatine Trump's behest, investigate relationships betwixt Epstein and erstwhile President Bill Clinton, JPMorgan Chase, erstwhile Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, billionaire tech capitalist Reid Hoffman, and others.

Trump "knew astir the girls," Epstein wrote the writer Michael Wolff successful April 2019, 3 months earlier Epstein was arrested connected kid enactment trafficking charges, during Trump's archetypal word successful the White House. The email did not accidental what Epstein meant by that. Epstein killed himself successful a Manhattan jailhouse successful August 2019.

In December 2018, successful effect to an unidentified idiosyncratic who had mentioned Trump being targeted for a "take down," Epstein replied, "its wild. due to the fact that I americium successful the 1 capable to instrumentality him down."

Years earlier, successful April 2011, Epstein wrote to Ghislaine Maxwell, who is present serving a 20-year situation word for procuring girls to beryllium sexually abused by him.

"I privation you to recognize that the canine that hasn't barked is trump," Epstein wrote, without elaborating connected what that meant.

"He has ne'er erstwhile been mentioned," Epstein wrote successful the aforesaid email, aft saying that a pistillate who has been identified arsenic a unfortunate of his "spent hours astatine my location with" Trump.

The Epstein emails were obtained from his property done a subpoena issued by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Trump has denied having known astir Epstein's serial intersexual maltreatment of underage girls and young women erstwhile they were friends. The president has ne'er been charged successful transportation with immoderate of Epstein's conduct.