I’ve been waiting and waiting, but most of the discussion here and in the media is on the president’s debate performance and the aftermath. I never thought I would see the day when I want to see more Trump diaries. But what a Palm Beach County judge released last Monday: “long sought-after records that show how prosecutors (PB county) attempted to paint two young women who testified as criminals rather than victims of sexual abuse,” should have sparked non-stop reporting, calls for Trump to drop out of the race and protesters demanding that TFG be arrested for the rape of girls as young as twelve in Florida.
Epstein ran an international child pedophile ring, and many powerful men went to his “spas” for the sole purpose of having intercourse with underage girls. But it has been a week, and it has barely been mentioned in televised media. (Though Fox News, of all outlets, did. Mainstream print media has reported the story, but no follow-up reporting is available that I could see), demanding that Trump drop out of the race. The story is all over Twitter, some of which is true, some not.
In February 2024, Ron DeSantis signed a law permitting grand jury records in the 2006 Epstein rape case could be released. Judge Luis Delgado released it last week.
The Palm Beach Clerk of Courts had tried for three years to access and release testimony to the public. Clerk of Court Abruzzo was quoted as saying, “The public, and the victims specifically, want to know how he (Epstein) was able to get a slap on the wrist and go on for decades, continuing these heinous acts to hundreds, or more, underage girls or women.”
The released files can be read here.
Lori Rosza of the Washington Post wrote one week ago:
The 158-page transcript includes testimony of two of Epstein’s young victims. They explained how Epstein and assistants in his household recruited girls at Royal Palm Beach High School. Each girl was paid $200 to recruit another girl to the house, with the intent that they’d give him a “massage.”
snip
When DeSantis signed the law to release the records in February, three of Epstein’s victims stood alongside him.
“I can’t express enough how we’ve all been so affected by this,” Haley Robson, one of the victims, said. “And I know for the regular, average citizen it’s just time that goes by. A lot of people tend to forget, but this is not something we should be forgetting about; this is not something to be sweeping under the rug. A lot of us are still in therapy; we’re still trying to survive.”
Another victim, Jena-Lisa Jones, said releasing the once-secret records was important to get the full picture.
“We have been left in the dark for so long with no answers to what is going on and why things played out the way that they did,” Jones said.
State Rep. Peggy Gossett-Seidman (R) who co-sponsored the bill to allow the records to be released, noted that two victims took their own lives in recent years.
From Newsweek on the X post, which has caused a brouhaha on the platform:
The post alleges that Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for this year's presidential election, "forced" young girls to "perform lesbian sex acts." It has amassed more than 17 millions views on X, formerly Twitter, since Monday, and has been shared more than 34,000 times.
Some X users appeared to believe that the document is a recent filing. The post was shared after about 150 pages of transcripts related to a 2006 grand jury investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's rape and sex trafficking of teenagers was released to the public on Monday.
However, the document included in the X post isn't connected to those papers, but actually comes from a lawsuit filed in the months leading up to the 2016 election by an anonymous plaintiff using the name "Katie Johnson."
That lawsuit, filed in federal court in Riverside, California, in April 2016, named Trump and Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, as defendants. It claimed the men held Johnson as a "sex slave" in 1994 when she was 13 and forced her to perform sex acts.
Congressman Ted Lieu has stated that pictures and the name Trump are all over the recent 2016 files. Will the media pick up the story? I don’t know. Some topics are taboo I/P, the climate crisis, and child rape.
They were kids, and Dershowitz and local prosecutors could demean them enough that Epstein got a slap on the wrist in 2006.
Their 2016 lawsuits filed by the women who were abused were eventually dropped in 2016. One just a day before the 2016 election. That victim was threatened with death by MAGA thugs and fled the United States for London.
In one of the emails, summarized below by attorneys representing Alan Dershowitz, Ransome said her friend was one of “many girls” Trump had had sex with, claimed the friend regularly had sex with Trump at Epstein’s mansion, and shared other NSFW details about Trump’s sexual proclivities:
Ransome’s email that includes the claims about Trump appears later in the document and is partially cut off:
In the document, Dershowitz’s attorneys used the emails to portray Ransome as a liar, noting that she had made many outlandish claims to the journalist, such as saying she’d reached out to the Russians for help and was “approached, by Special Agents Forces Men sent directly by Hilary [sic] Clinton herself, in order to protect her presidential campaign.” For example:
In 2016 a woman who went by the pseudonyms Katie Johnson and Jane Doe in legal filings accused Trump of raping her in 1994, when she was 13, during an orgy held at Epstein’s home in Manhattan. She accused Epstein of raping her as well.
Three suits were filed over the same allegations; the first was dismissed for failure to properly state a claim, and the other two were voluntarily dismissed. The third case was withdrawn just days before the 2016 election, and the accuser canceled a press conference at the last minute. Her attorney, Lisa Bloom, said the woman had received death threats and, “She has decided she is too afraid to show her face … She is in terrible fear.”
SNIP
In a January 2024 Truth Social post, Trump claimed “I was never on Epstein’s Plane, or at his ‘stupid’ Island.” Flight logs show Trump took at least seven flights on Epstein’s plane, but there is no evidence that he ever visited Little Saint James, Epstein’s property in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The girls were intimidated and threatened by Palm Beach prosecutors. Borrowing again from reporting by the Washington Post.
Palm Beach Police investigator Joseph Recarey told jurors that Epstein told the young women involved in recruiting others, “the younger the better.” Epstein rejected one woman who was 23 because he said she was too old. Recarey pushed for more and tougher charges against Epstein but was thwarted by state attorney Barry Krischer’s office.
Assistant State Attorney Lanna Belohlavek asked both girls questions that appeared to be an attempt to undermine their credibility.
“You[‘re] aware that you committed a crime?” she asked one of the girls, who was 14 when Epstein sexually assaulted her during the “massage” he paid her $200 for.
“Now I am,” the girl answered. “I didn’t know it was a crime when I was doing it. Like, I, I don’t know. Now, I, I guess it’s prostitution or something like that.”
There is so much more in the links above that I can not share here.
Why are we not screaming from the rooftops over this? Instead, we follow the media’s attempt to destroy Joe Biden non-stop rather than expose Trump for the vile human being that he is. It is past time we shift and focus on the devil before us.
Good on Fox News.
If you speak out, this happens.