{"id":7508,"date":"2026-02-28T14:50:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=7508"},"modified":"2026-02-28T14:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:50:32","slug":"politics-are-laced-through-the-epstein-affair-and-why-listening-to-the-victims-is-so-vital-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=7508","title":{"rendered":"Politics are laced through the Epstein affair – and why listening to the victims is so vital | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Amid all the investigations into the Epstein affair, there is much talk – and no argument – about the importance of listening to the survivors.<\/p>\n

And yet, at a lectern outside the venue where she’d just been questioning a former president, Republican Nancy Mace told the media this: “Epstein victims have exonerated President Trump. This is a trope, a rabbit hole that you guys have been going down, but he’s been exonerated over and over again by Epstein victims.”<\/p>\n

Which is news to many survivors. I asked Rep Mace when survivors had told her the president is exonerated because they had only ever told me they wanted to see him questioned by her committee. She replied: “I’ve never heard that from a single victim.”<\/p>\n

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Anna Paulina Luna, her Republican colleague on the House Oversight Committee, has expressed similar views that Epstein survivors see the president as being in the clear.<\/p>\n

You have to wonder at the extent of their research.<\/p>\n

Dani Bensky, an Epstein survivor, told Sky News: “Trump has certainly not been exonerated. There is evidence, and there are investigative leads that need to be looked into. Just because a survivor doesn’t raise a hand in a group setting, doesn’t mean that they didn’t experience or witness harm. It means that safety and defamation are extremely real fears.<\/p>\n

“To suggest Trump is exonerated is an insult to survivors and speaks to the continued failures of the DoJ [Department of Justice] to follow the investigative leads that are in front of them.”<\/p>\n

Jess Michaels, an Epstein survivor, posted on Threads: “Rep Luna did not meet with all 1200+ victims from an over 30-year time span. WE, as a collective, have not cleared President Trump of wrongdoing. He IS a person of interest. He should testify.<\/p>\n

“Signed ~ an Epstein survivor.”<\/p>\n

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