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Wednesday, September 03, 2025

A group of Jeffrey Epstein accusers on Wednesday told emotional, gut-wrenching stories of sexual abuse at the hands of the late convicted sex offender and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, raising pressure on lawmakers to back the release of all of the files in the Justice Department's years-long Epstein investigation. The accusers at the conference said that if Congress isn't willing to release all of the investigative documents pertaining to Epstein, they would compile their own list of names to hold those in Epstein's orbit accountable. "Together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know, who were regularly in the Epstein world," said Lisa Phillips, who said she was brought to Epstein's island.

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But the Trump White House and Republican congressional leaders are opposed to the release of all of the files, saying that doing so could inadvertently expose the identities of victims who don't want to go public.

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#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-03 03:32 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

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#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-03 03:36 PM | Reply

Victims said they had no faith that the Epstein files would ever be made public in their entirety and that they had started assembling their own Epstein "client lists".

"We know the names," said Lisa Phillips, an Epstein victim who hosts a podcast that tells stories of sex abuse survivors. "Now, together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know were regularly in the Epstein world."

Haley Robson, who was trafficked to Epstein as a teenager, said: "We are the keys, we have the truth. We know the game, we know the players, and we are sitting here for 20 years waiting for you to get up and do something. Well, guess what? Your time is up, and we're doing it."

Anger has been growing among victims, many of whom say the Trump administration's decision to close the Epstein case without hearing from any of the sex offender's nearly 1,000 accusers has denied them justice.
(Release Epstein client list or we will, survivors tell government:
Victims of Jeffrey Epstein held a press conference on the steps of the US Capitol to demand the full release of files related to sex-trafficking ring
www.thetimes.com)


And so it starts ...

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-03 03:54 PM | Reply

These victims need to stick together because all of their lives are in danger.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-03 03:56 PM | Reply

Trump, "I love to grab p***y! I can't help myself!"

Trump's victims, "he raped us when we were children!"

MAGAts, "I'm not sure who to believe."

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-03 04:00 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Epstein files push hits a boiling point' in Congress as Trump dismisses it as a hoax

"There's over 200 Republicans who have not signed this discharge petition. We only need two of them to sign it," Massie said at the press conference, where he vowed not to back down from the fight.

"I've never done a press conference with Marjorie Taylor Greene before," Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, a staunch liberal from California, said of the firebrand Georgia Republican as the crowd laughed.

An attorney for numerous Epstein survivors said they would hold Johnson and lawmakers accountable."

www.cnn.com

WANTED: Two brave country over Party Republicans to defy Orange Adolph and prove this isn't a Hoax!

(good luck with that!)

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-03 04:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I listened to an interview of one of the victims on NPR this morning.

She said she believes Trump is protecting folks. Folks more powerful than him. But wouldn't name names nor implicate Trump himself.

I predict some here will eventually resort to calling these victims liars for not directly implicating Trump.

Simply affirming what a raping scumbag Epstein is just isn't good enough.

#7 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 04:23 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

- I predict some here will eventually resort to calling these victims liars for not directly implicating Trump.

That's just so sad and stupid on so many levels... but hey, trolling the posters rather than commenting on the news is also entirely expected from this poster who's got nothing else.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-03 04:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-03 04:44 PM | Reply

I predict some here will eventually resort to calling these victims liars for not directly implicating Trump.

Thanks Nostradamus.

But Trumpy has already "implicated" himself.

Trumpy spent YEARS stoking dark theories and embracing QAnon-tinged propaganda that casts him as the only savior who can demolish the "deep state."

Now that he's running the federal government, the conspiracy community he helped build is coming back to haunt him. It's demanding answers he either isn't able to or does not want to provide.

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-03 04:46 PM | Reply

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#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-03 04:56 PM | Reply

Oh, am I angering those who already know I'm predicting their future behavior?

And they know it right now.

-But Trumpy has already "implicated" himself.

Until you see evidence Trump raped children, it's impossible you'll be satisfied.

#12 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 04:57 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Until you see evidence Trump raped children, it's impossible you'll be satisfied.

#12 | POSTED BY EBERLY

We already know Trumpy is a rapist. So what would that prove? Whose mind would it change about him?

And honestly I doubt they will find much about Trumpy in the files. He has has plenty of time to bleach them. He had a thousand agents working full time in it.

Regardless Trumpy has implicated himself by now pretending the conspiracy theory he promoted and ran on for re election is a "democrat hoax".

It's sad that I have to spell it out for you.

#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-03 05:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

-We already know Trumpy is a rapist.

Not good enough. You're not even convinced he's a rapist. That's just Lockeroom talk to you.

You want the proof.

#14 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 05:07 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

- I'm predicting their future behavior?

"Madame Beverly, Psychic Readings Only Fiddy Cents!"

As long as your go-to posts are about other posters and not the thread subject... we'll always know it's you.

#15 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-03 05:08 PM | Reply

15

"I just KNOW that son of a bitch is talking about ME!!"

-Corky

#16 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 05:11 PM | Reply

Not good enough. You're not even convinced he's a rapist. That's just Lockeroom talk to you.

We already have loads of "proof". 90 million proofs in fact.

He owes E Jean Carol $90 million dollars.

It's locker room talk to you.

It's a confession to me.

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-03 05:12 PM | Reply

#16

Thanks for proving the point! (as if we needed that)

#18 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-03 05:12 PM | Reply

If you didn't think it applied to you then you'd ignore it.

But you can't.

You know I'm right and you look in the mirror and know it describes you perfectly.

#19 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 05:12 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

You're just pissed I'm predicting it.

#20 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 05:13 PM | Reply

-He owes E Jean Carol $90 million dollars.

Not good enough.

You and how many others have been screaming about the significance of these files? Every fukkin day.

Now you're pretending it didn't matter anyway? "He's rapist anyway"

Please ... ... you're desperate for these files to prove he's a pedophile.

Which is fine with me.

#21 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 05:16 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"You're just pissed I'm predicting it."

I am not pissed. Not even surprised. Also not impressed.

We can all make predictions. Some are more accurate than others.

I predict that if any evidence of Trumpy doing something illegal (again) is actually uncovered in the files (as I said unlikely) it will be dismissed and called a "Democrat Hoax" (again).

#22 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-03 05:18 PM | Reply

The conclusions drawn here are fine.

But they are meaningless to Trump.

You need him to face a meaningful consequence.

I want to see it happen as well.

But I won't be calling those victims liars if they don't feed you what you hunger for.

#23 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 05:19 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

-I am not pissed.

Sorry ... ... enraged.

#24 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 05:20 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

-I predict that if any evidence of Trumpy doing something illegal (again) is actually uncovered in the files (as I said unlikely) it will be dismissed and called a "Democrat Hoax" (again).

Fine.

But it doesn't end there.

You'll go further. You can't help yourself. You'll personally attack so many people you won't even believe it.

#25 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 05:22 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Someone who knows another person is continously committing child sex crimes and does nothing to stop it from repeatedly happening again and again is also guilty.

It sounds like eberly disagrees. Or at least he wants to troll libs for agreeing.

(Since we're making distinctions without much difference)

#26 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-09-03 05:35 PM | Reply

Interesting. Not a single MAGAt coming in. They know as well as the rest of us that Trump was a prominent abuser and pedophile. They do not want the info released.

#27 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-09-03 05:36 PM | Reply

-Someone who knows another person is continously committing child sex crimes and does nothing to stop it from repeatedly happening again and again is also guilty.

Are you confessing?

Because I don't know you're a pedo. I have no evidence.

We have victims of Epstein (and others ... .names??)

We have files.

Am I supposed to shoot trump?

#28 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 05:43 PM | Reply

Posted by eberly

Jesus wept. What a sad, revolting POS.

The new , practical conservative.

#29 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-09-03 05:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trumpy has implicated himself by now pretending the conspiracy theory he promoted and ran on for re election is a "democrat hoax".

#13 | POSTED BY DONNERBOY

Therefore:

Donald is damned whether he does or doesn't it release the files. Or what's in or not in them.

Karma in operation. He's going to eaten by the very pigs he raised.

#30 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-03 05:51 PM | Reply

#30: Hi Zed:

https://i0.wp.com/ctnewsjunkie.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/frank-epstein-john-darkow-cagle-297931-1200x.jpg?fit=1200%2C937&quality=89&ssl=1

#31 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-03 05:56 PM | Reply

- But I won't be calling those victims liars if they don't feed you what you hunger for.

#23

Bev builds Straw Man Fallacy, then kills it himself. Typical drunken behavior!!

That's really purdy funny if ya think about it.

#32 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-03 05:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Karma in operation. He's going to eaten by the very pigs he raised."

Beverley is laughing at your frantic, absurdly dramatic, assessment.

If democrats will just stop pointing out Trump's horrific behavior, it will just go away, and all will be good.

#33 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-09-03 05:59 PM | Reply

You went a few posts this time before throwing in the towel, corky.

Better effort this time.

You could have been exactly like angrydad and just fall down immediately after they ring the bell.

#34 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 06:01 PM | Reply

-Beverley is laughing at your frantic, absurdly dramatic, assessment.

I sort of agree with him.

#35 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 06:09 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#34

Non-responsive logical fallacy/ flawed argumentative tactic... you must have bought a ton of them in a low market.

www.google.com

#36 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-03 06:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Argh! Stupid normal Americans who think raping vulnerable underage girls and infecting them with STDs like wildfire isn't deviant, illegal, unethical, immoral, or illegal! Blargh! Democrat hoax! Fake news! Argh! AI generated! Blargh!"
themillenniumreport.com

#37 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-03 06:10 PM | Reply

36

So ... ..you're NOT going to shoot the messenger when the message isn't what you want?

If that's true then just say so.

#38 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 06:16 PM | Reply

#37

You know, it's pics like those that show Trump showing off to his Wingman Jeffrey... and others of the Epstein Island crowd. Sorta like those Bday cards they sent.

#39 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-03 06:18 PM | Reply

- the messenger

Carries a message; he doesn't just make sht up and assign the position to people with whom he's supposedly debating an issue.

#40 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-03 06:20 PM | Reply

Oh, I didn't notice you avoided the very simple question.

Wait ... ... actually I did.

#41 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 06:26 PM | Reply

- I predict some here will eventually resort to calling these victims liars for not directly implicating Trump.
Simply affirming what a raping scumbag Epstein is just isn't good enough.

#7 | Posted by eberly

You made that up; assigned the position, then commenced to talk about what a bad position it was and infer how bad people must be to take it.

I hate arguing with drunks, always have.

#42 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-03 06:31 PM | Reply

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Should I apologize for arriving at the truth before you want me to?

You're arguing with me because you know it accurately describes your future behavior.

Or at least you're afraid it does.

#43 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 06:35 PM | Reply

- arriving at the truth

Ah so, you 'think' your derogatory imagination of a 'prediction' is, "the Truth!"?

Now that's really sad!

- at least you're afraid it does.

I'll put my psych degrees up against your bad bourbon any day!

#44 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-03 06:39 PM | Reply

"we will confidentially compile the names we all know"

so, they will make a client list- but not release it...

#45 | Posted by easy_meat at 2025-09-03 06:45 PM | Reply

-my psych degrees

Love it!!

#46 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 06:46 PM | Reply

On Topic

(as opposed to all the DISTRACTIONARY and COMPLETELY PULLED OUT OF HIS ASS FAKE PREDICTIONS)

"Will Epstein Files Cover Up Turn QANON Cult Against Trump?

Trump gained power because of online conspiracies accusing the Democratic party of the very thing Trump and Jeffery Epstein are accused of doing."

www.youtube.com

What we are seeing with the Republicans who want to just release ALL the files rather than releasing 30k pages of nothing new... they ONLY NEED 2 of the uncommitted 200 other Republicans to do so.

But hey, two patriots loyal to Law over King out of 200 Republicans is still a long shot.

#47 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-03 06:59 PM | Reply

Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak (Labor Party) is in the Epstein files: drudge.com

#48 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-03 07:08 PM | Reply

"they ONLY NEED 2 of the uncommitted 200 other Republicans to do so."

I hope they get them.

#49 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 07:12 PM | Reply

Don't look now, but your hoax is burning.

#50 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-09-03 07:13 PM | Reply

MAGAs love their horrible, horrible person of a president

#51 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-09-03 07:15 PM | Reply

"(as opposed to all the DISTRACTIONARY and COMPLETELY PULLED OUT OF HIS ASS FAKE PREDICTIONS)"

Whiney child

And you took the bait. You do it every time.

Poor sap

#52 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-03 07:29 PM | Reply

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