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mcar

(45,291 posts)
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 09:14 PM Sep 3

The Epstein Files Belong to the Victims, Too. It's Time to Release Everything.

Today’s press conference showed that anything less than that is cowardly.

By Charles P. PiercePublished: Sep 03, 2025 6:50 PM EDT

It was an altogether remarkable press conference on a bright early autumn day as breathable air made its annual return to the nation's capital. It was remarkable not merely for the very strange coalition of congress critters who called it, Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican hardbars Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene. It was remarkable because it was a demonstration of public courage on the steps of a building that has fairly reeked of timidity and cowardice for almost a decade now.

"My name is Marina Lacerda," one woman said, "I was Minor Victim One in federal indictment of Jeffrey Epstein in New York in 2019."

With that simple introduction, all the persiflage and evasions and total bullshit surrounding the so-called Epstein Files fell away and all that was left was a group of women, subjected to incomprehensible injuries as young girls, demanding to know what evidence their government gathered in their names and at their expense as taxpayers.

There was more here than a justified ensemble call for justice, although that certainly was an important part of it. The press conference also illuminated the individual damage wrought on all the women, as Lacerda, a Brazilian emigre who was recruited into Epstein's house of horrors when she barely had begun high school, explained.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a65973115/epstein-files-victims-press-conference/

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The Epstein Files Belong to the Victims, Too. It's Time to Release Everything. (Original Post) mcar Sep 3 OP
The opening of this article sounds very interesting but it's got a paywall, unfortunately. Deuxcents Sep 3 #1
It does. I've posted the first 4 paragraphs, per DU rules mcar Sep 3 #3
Yes, I am glad for what you posted but was disappointed to learn I had to be a subscriber to read the rest! Deuxcents Sep 3 #5
I'm still stunned JustAnotherGen Sep 3 #2
There were so many moments during that presser mcar Sep 3 #4
Recommended. H2O Man Sep 3 #6
TY for posting this from Pierce, mcar.. Cha Sep 3 #7
'Gold House'. sheshe2 Sep 3 #9
As we know.. Cha Sep 3 #10
I hope so too, Cha. sheshe2 Sep 3 #11
One of them said just that. sheshe2 Sep 3 #8

Deuxcents

(23,941 posts)
5. Yes, I am glad for what you posted but was disappointed to learn I had to be a subscriber to read the rest!
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 09:31 PM
Sep 3

Thanks for the article 🌺

JustAnotherGen

(36,998 posts)
2. I'm still stunned
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 09:18 PM
Sep 3

Last edited Thu Sep 4, 2025, 08:41 AM - Edit history (1)

That Ms. Lacerda was told that she was "too old" at 17. That's just disgusting.

I don't know if Im going to be able to read Ms. Guiffre's book next month.

mcar

(45,291 posts)
4. There were so many moments during that presser
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 09:26 PM
Sep 3

That was one of them. I kept seeing these women as little girls, faced with those horrors.

I don't think I'll read the book either, but I may buy it, just to pump it up.

Cha

(314,221 posts)
7. TY for posting this from Pierce, mcar..
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 09:42 PM
Sep 3

It's a Tragic Horror show that leads right up the the Gold House.

Cha

(314,221 posts)
10. As we know..
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 11:34 PM
Sep 3
... It's not even our White House anymore.

I'm forever Hopeful we Will get it back someday.

sheshe2

(93,633 posts)
8. One of them said just that.
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 09:44 PM
Sep 3

They have files with my name on them!

I watched it all this morning and I have the utmost respect for each and every one of them.

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