Beyond her laughable attempt to overcome years of her own history with Jeffrey Epstein – thoroughly documented both privately and in the media – by simply ordering discussion of it to stop, Mrs. Trump has called for a hearing not for the perpetrators, nor for Epstein’s co-conspirators, but a hearing in which the survivors testify.
I wish I were joking, but no. The linked BBC article, which focuses more on Mrs. Trump’s well-established, undeniable ties to both Epstein and Maxwell, also has information on this proposed hearing:
In a surprise announcement on Thursday, the first lady called for congressional hearings for survivors of Epstein’s sex trafficking.
Melania Trump on Thursday additionally called on lawmakers to “give these victims their opportunity to testify under oath in front of Congress with the power of sworn testimony”.
“Each and every woman should have her day to tell her story in public if she wishes, and then her testimony should be permanently entered into the congressional record,” she said. “Then, and only then, we will have the truth.”
Family of Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, Sky and Amanda Roberts, and other survivors told BBC Newsnight that they "have already shown extraordinary courage by coming forward, filing reports, and giving testimony.
“Asking more of them now is a deflection of responsibility, not justice,” they said in a statement. They accused the first lady of protecting “those with power”, including members of her husband’s administration who they said still have not released all of the investigative files related to Epstein.
“Survivors have done their part,” they said. “Now it’s time for those in power to do theirs.”
No tinfoil needed, because what we put out into the world in terms of behavior and choices and the way we interact with others comes back to us, and everything you said simply matches what they regularly put out. They both thrive on chaos, and he especially goes out of his way to blow up whatever just quietly works, using kindness and the goodwill of others as an opening through which to exploit and destroy, so whatever comes back to them both – especially in terms of their ongoing antisocial and criminal behaviors and associations – is not going to be sane, stable, or predictable. What you wrote is prescient, not crazy.
Yes, and imagine how much, and by how many. Think about all the parties they went to twenty-thirty years ago; all the illegal, immoral, and repugnant shit they did when none of it seemed to matter. Imagine them being quizzed by their attorneys, "Are you sure you’ve told me everything?" and having to say no because even if they do remember some of what they did, they did far too much over too long a period of time to remember any of the specifics now. Picture the moment they realize that Epstein’s penchant for having secret cameras everywhere (including tissue boxes, apparently) in addition to the cameras of paparazzi as well as the straight media means they literally have NO idea what old evils will surface next, or from where or when, or with what proof.
In that context, an individual blackmailer that comes forward with a specific demand is almost a mercy, lol.
I think you’re probably more right than you know when you surmise that their evil is coming back to them in ways and from directions they never imagined, and cannot now control. But it’s not like they are people that spared the children and family members of others, or value that kind of morality in the people they associate with, so they shouldn’t be too offended when that’s how their own actions return to them.
Thanks Chunk, that made me spit out my coffee.
I suppose you’re right. This fits in a similar category as climate change data: we simply don’t want to be right about something that devastatingly true.