Several survivors of the sex crimes committed by the late Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, spoke at a news conference in Washington DC to demand a list of Epstein’s clients, which President Trump will not allow.
Journalist Tara Palmeri told MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace that the survivors are largely Republicans who trusted that conservatives would fight to ensure they and others like them got justice:
Before she died, Virginia Giuffre told me that she believed that President [Donald] Trump would release the files. That, you know, she believed that because he arrested Jeffrey Epstein in 2019, this would happen in his administration, as was promised, right?
A lot of these survivors, they are Republicans. They were hopeful that this administration, after listening to so many MAGA influencers saying that they wanted this out there, they wanted this cabal of, at the time, Democratic elites to be revealed, that this would happen.
MSNBC legal analyst Kristen Gibbons Feden said the Epstein survivors may create their own list:
With regard to the legal avenue that we haven’t heard, we did hear from a survivor. [They] said, listen, if you guys do not give us the transparency that we are asking for, the transparency that we deserve, the transparency that we need to heal, then we’re going to put together our list.