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Ansari: You know, being in politics, I have to have a natural sense of optimism—which I do. And while I have been disappointed time and time again this year, I really hope that Republicans in the Senate and in the House—but especially when it comes to the Senate vote—will make the right decision here.
Because as somebody who has sat in the room with the victims of these crimes, I cannot tell you how sickening it was to hear firsthand accounts from these victims about what they endured when they were 13, 14, 15 years old—how they were recruited and groomed by Ghislaine Maxwell herself, who’s now getting the special treatment and being waited on hand and foot in this jail that she’s in.
Their accounts, the promises that were made to them—most of the now women, but children at the time who were trafficked—were coming from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, so they were really preyed upon in this way. One of the women talked about how her mom had cancer, and Jeffrey Epstein essentially blackmailed her and said, If you do this or don’t, it’s the difference between your mom getting the treatment that she needs or your mom being killed. Even alluding to things like, I will decide what anesthesiologist is in the room. Harrowing stories.
And they made very clear that this is so big. This is such a massive, massive network that existed—the financial institutions that were involved and turned the other way to allow these crimes to happen; the rich and powerful people who turned the other way or took part. Either way, if you’re not participating in it but you knew, you are enabling it.
And that is the thing with Donald Trump. Every time I have been on many of the major network channels that we’ve been on to talk about this issue, they’re very quick to say, Donald Trump has not been implicated. Well, there are emails now that say Donald Trump spent hours with victims and knew what was going on.
Even if that is the extent of what Donald Trump did, that is a massive problem—that the president of the United States of America engaged and was part of and knew about the vast amount of crimes and the abuse of countless girls. It is just egregious. And going back to your question, if these Republican senators can’t see that, I think they’re going to see huge backlash from their constituents.
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i give thanks to everyone who continues to speak up for the survivors of abuse
the upcoming votes on the “epstein transparency act” in both house and senate of the congress of usa will show the true colours of every elected member of parliament
and with that vote everyone
on a global scale
will have the opportunity to take away the support from people who protect abusers by wanting to hide their identiy by for example stop buying products made by companies owned by abusers and or protectors of abusers, stop working in those companies and most logical stop voting anyone wanting to protect the identiy of abusers into any office anywhere
Parliament?? What country are you from buddy and why do you care about American politics, Ian Miles?