They came to Washington not as props for anyone\u2019s storyline,<\/p>\n
but as survivors determined to reclaim their voices. Jess Michaels,<\/p>\n
Wendy Avis, Marijke Chartouni, Jena-Lisa Jones, Lisa Phillips, and Liz Stein<\/p>\n
stood shoulder to shoulder, their presence a living rebuke to the systems that protected Jeffrey Epstein for years.<\/p>\n
They demanded full transparency: the release of more federal files,<\/p>\n
the exposure of enablers, and a real reckoning with the power structures that let a predator thrive in plain sight.<\/p>\n
What they refused to do was just as powerful.<\/p>\n
When invited to endorse unverified claims tying Donald Trump to Epstein,<\/p>\n
they declined, insisting that justice must be rooted in evidence, not partisan wish-casting.<\/p>\n
Their stance cut against the media script some had hoped to write,<\/p>\n
but it honored something far more important: the truth of their own stories,<\/p>\n
and the memory of those, like Virginia Giuffre, who are no longer here to speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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