Epstein survivors launch national PSA demanding release of remaining files
Source: WorldWithoutExploitation.org
In a new ad, Jeffrey Epstein’s victims’ group is calling on Congress to pass legislation that would force the Justice Department to release investigative files on the notorious sex offender after months of resistance from the Trump administration.
The ad ends by showing photos of Epstein’s victims when they were girls and young women, then says, “Five administrations later, we are still in the dark.”
“Call your congressman and demand they release the full Epstein file,” the ad says.
The ad was posted two days before the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the bill.
In a significant reversal Sunday night, President Donald Trump urged House Republicans to vote yes on the bill. President Trump last week pressured Republicans in Congress not to support the petition, which forced a vote.
But he now appears open to the possibility that the Republican-controlled House, and possibly the Senate, will vote in favor of the bill.
For months, President Trump and the Justice Department have resisted demands to release the Epstein documents after Attorney General Pam Bondi reneged on a promise to release them.
“I was 17 years old when I met Jeffrey Epstein,” Danielle Bensky, one of the women featured in the ad, said in a statement.
“I was an aspiring ballerina and was working odd jobs to support my mother as she battled brain cancer and to continue training,” Bensky said.
“One woman told me about a wealthy philanthropist who might be able to help. What started as a way to pay for dance lessons turned into months of abuse,” she said. “Epstein used my mother’s illness to control me. He promised help and threatened to take it away if I spoke. It took me years to tell the truth, but I speak now because too many people still believe this story should be hidden.”
In New York City, November 17, 2025, a Times Square billboard paid for by the organization Home of the Brave emphasizes Jeffrey Epstein’s comment that Donald Trump “of course knew about these girls.”
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Another victim, Annie Farmer, said in a statement: “When I was 16, I trusted adults who wanted me to succeed. That trust was abused and shaped the rest of my life.”
Farmer also said, “Those who protected Epstein have been protected for decades. Survivors have had unanswered questions for decades. Sharing the documents left behind will help redress the imbalance.”
“House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files,” President Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Sunday.
“Because we have nothing to hide and it’s time to move on from this Democratic hoax perpetrated by the lunatics of the radical left to distract from the great successes of the Republican Party, including the recent Democratic ‘shutdown’ victory,” President Trump wrote.
Despite President Trump’s comments about Democrats, the bill was pushed by Rep. Thomas Massey, a Republican from Kentucky. Massey said more than 100 House Republicans could ultimately vote yes.
Mr. Trump’s post came after a House committee released emails written by Mr. Epstein years after Mr. Epstein’s longtime friendship with Mr. Trump fell apart.
And it came days after Mr. Bondi announced that the Justice Department, at Mr. Trump’s order, would investigate Mr. Epstein’s relationships with former President Bill Clinton, JPMorgan Chase & Co., former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and billionaire tech investor Reid Hoffman.
In April 2019, during Trump’s first term in the White House, three months before he was arrested on child sex trafficking charges, Epstein “knew these girls,” he wrote to author Michael Wolff. The email does not say what Epstein meant by it. Epstein committed suicide in a Manhattan prison in August 2019.
In December 2018, when an unidentified person mentioned that Trump was being targeted for “ouster,” Epstein responded, “That’s outrageous, because I’m the one person who can bring him down.”
A few years earlier, in April 2011, Epstein wrote a letter to Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for recruiting girls to be sexually abused.
“Please understand that the dog that didn’t bark is Trump,” Epstein wrote, without elaborating on what that meant.
In the same email, Epstein said a woman identified as his victim “spent hours at my house” with Trump, before writing, “His name was never mentioned.”
Epstein’s emails were obtained from his estate through a subpoena issued by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
President Trump has denied knowing about Epstein’s serial sexual abuse of underage girls and young women when they were friends. The president has never been charged in connection with Epstein’s actions.
