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Donald Trump, Republican in Congress and the President’s allies in the right media try everything to make public outrage over her failed procedure in the Jeffrey Epstein determination disappear. While reports indicate that Trump’s name appears in the government acts of the convicted sex offender.
Criticism of victim to the Ministry of Justice and the relief of prison for Maxwell
The government’s efforts to turn the affair under the carpet are difficult because some victims of Epstein and their families speak publicly during the scandal. Trump did not face them. However, according to two sources familiar with his private statements, he has repeatedly criticized the media appearances of the victims and their relatives in the past few weeks. He claimed that some just wanted to put him in a bad light. Or indicate that he had behaved incorrectly in his time as an Epstein’s friend and party guest. Sometimes Trump said that some of these people were obviously politically “democrats”. And possibly in consultation with well -known liberal lawyers or groups.
“None of this is right,” said a spokesman for the White House. “Only another desperate attempt by the failed Rolling Stone.”
Survivors of Epstein’s abuse have been criticizing the Trump government’s procedure for weeks after the Ministry of Justice announced in early July not to publish the so-called Epstein files. The protest was increased when Epstein’s complicity Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a much more comfortable prison in Texas after talks with the Ministry of Justice in Florida. Maxwell served a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted of children in 2021 for children’s existence and other offenses in connection with Epstein. The “Wall Street Journal” reported last month that the Ministry of Justice informed the President, his name appeared in evidence of the case. In what connection is unclear.
Allegations of “extinguishing” and protest against possible pardon
The sisters Annie and Maria Farmer, who accused the epic of abuse and testified against Maxwell, publicly criticized that victims were ignored in the decisions. Annie Farmer said at the beginning of the month at CNN that this chaotic process had “a real price for the survivors”. She explained that she was not informed of the conversations with Maxwell or her relocation to a prison with a small security level.
“A central component of trauma is the feeling of lack of control. And that was exactly what was triggered here,” said Farmer. Even she had only learned the relocation from the media. She added that attempts to present Maxwell as another victim of Epstein, a strategy to make a possible pardon by Trump “more acceptable” for the public. Trump did not exclude a pardon. And emphasizes that he is “authorized”.
“It seems that this campaign does not work. People realize that she is a perpetrator. No damaged,” said Farmer.
Last month, Danielle Bensky, who accused Epstein of Abuse in 2004, told NBC News, the procedure of the President and his allies felt “as if we were wiped out”. “All the brave women who went public. All the work we did to tell the world what happened to us. It is wiped out,” said Bensky.
Court complaint and political pressure
The family of Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein victim that committed suicide at the beginning of the year, reacted to Trump’s remark that Epstein had “stolen from the Mar-A-Lago spa”. In her explanation it said: “If our sister could speak today, she would be most outraged that the government lists a well -known meinerei person who has repeatedly lied under oath.” The family demanded answers. “Survivors deserve that.”
In a letter to a US federal court, an anonymous victim said that it was “for complete transparency in this case”. But they also earn them “from our own government, the authorities that should have protected us. And they have completely abandoned us”.
On Monday, the Republican MP Thomas Massie (Kentucky) announced together with the Democrat Ro Khanna (California) on September 3 to hold a press conference with Epstein survivors and their lawyers. It remains unclear whether the families will have a conversation with Trump or high -ranking government representatives.
Trump’s frustration about the victims and their relatives comes at a time when his government unsuccessfully tries to distract public attention from his connection to Epstein and the decision to keep the government files under closure. The president is desperately looking for other topics. Until the revival of unfounded theories about the 2016 Russia investigations. Trump also asks his Ministry of Justice to act against Barack Obama and other political opponents.