Michael Cohen - Will The GOP Choose Predators Over Children?
Seriously, when did we devolve to the point where the rape and trafficking of children became a partisan issue? I don’t ask that rhetorically. I ask it because right now, in the United States of America, the Speaker of the House, MAGA Mike Johnson, is working to block a floor vote to release Jeffrey Epstein’s files, while Trump, the president of this country, calls the entire thing “a Democrat hoax.” Let that sink in: victims—survivors of sex trafficking, rape, and exploitation—were on Capitol Hill pouring out their trauma, reliving their hell in front of cameras, lawmakers, and strangers, and the president dismisses them as actors in some partisan scam. That’s not just politics as usual. That’s moral rot.
The split screen in Washington this week was almost too much to bear. On one side, Trump sat in the Oval Office with the Polish president, smirking as he waved off Epstein’s crimes as no different than JFK conspiracy theories. On the other side, survivors stood on the Capitol steps, flanked by lawmakers from both parties—yes, even some of Trump’s most loyal foot soldiers—pleading for transparency, pleading for justice, pleading not to be erased. The women made it clear: this is not a hoax, not a distraction, not something that can be bullied into silence. They were raped as children. They were trafficked as commodities for powerful men. And now they’re being victimized again—this time by their own government.
The depravity here is not subtle. Trump and his allies have managed to turn the abuse of minors into a political loyalty test. Are you with the president, or are you with the truth? That’s the question hanging over the House GOP. Johnson has already made his choice. He’s working overtime to bottle up a discharge petition—led by Republican Thomas Massie, of all people, and Democrat Ro Khanna—that would force a vote to release the full Epstein file. The petition is just two Republican signatures short of success. Two. That’s how close we are to exposing the names, the documents, the trail of complicity that Epstein left behind. And the White House is threatening any Republican who dares to break ranks. The message is crystal clear: protecting Trump’s narrative comes before protecting children. An anonymous White House spokesperson called the bipartisan effort a "very hostile act to the administration."
This, my Substack community, is the dystopia we’re living in. Nancy Mace, a Republican congresswoman and survivor of sexual violence herself, left a hearing in tears this week—triggered by the testimony of Epstein victims. She later said the testimony caused a panic attack. Read that again. A sitting member of Congress collapsed under the weight of what she heard because the stories were that horrific. And the president’s response? “It’s irrelevant.” “It’s a hoax.” Imagine being one of those survivors and hearing that. One of them, Haley Robson, a registered Republican, said it felt like being “gutted from the inside out.” She begged Trump to meet her face-to-face. Her words: “We are real human beings. This is real trauma.”
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