In her carefully worded statement, Melania Trump tried to draw a clear line: she briefly crossed paths with Jeffrey Epstein decades ago, was never abused, never involved, and believes the accusations linking her to him are politically motivated.<\/p>\n
She went further, urging Congress to let every survivor testify publicly under oath, insisting that only then would \u201cthe truth\u201d be known and preserved in the congressional record.<\/p>\n
To some, it sounded like a call for transparency; to many survivors, it sounded like another demand for them to bleed in public.<\/p>\n
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The joint letter from more than a dozen Epstein survivors laid bare that anger. They reminded the world that they have already filed reports, relived trauma in courtrooms, and endured intense scrutiny.<\/p>\n
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Asking them to step forward again, they argued, shifts the burden away from institutions that hid files, exposed identities, and protected power.<\/p>\n
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Their message was stark: survivors have carried this weight long enough. Now the responsibility belongs to those who failed them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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