Trump urges Jeffrey Epstein file release vote by Republicans

A group of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims calls on Congress in a new ad. Ministry of Justice To release investigative files on the notorious sex offender after months of resistance from the Trump administration.

“Five administrations and we’re still in the dark,” she says at the end of the public service announcement, after the victims held up photos depicting themselves as girls and young women when Epstein began harassing them.

“Call your member of Congress and demand the release of all Epstein files,” says the PSA produced by the group World Without Exploitation.

The ad comes ahead of the House of Representatives’ vote on the measure. NBC News reported Monday that House GOP leaders plan to table the Epstein resolution for a vote on Tuesday.

On Sunday night, in a major reversal, President Donald Trump urged House Republicans to vote in favor of the measure. Trump last week pressured congressional Republicans not to support a petition mandating the vote.

But he now appears to acknowledge the possibility that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and potentially the Senate will vote in favor of the measure.

Trump and the Justice Department have resisted demands to release the Epstein files for months after Attorney General Pam Bondi broke her promise to make them public.

Danielle Bensky, one of the women in the ad, said in a statement, “I was 17 years old when I met Jeffrey Epstein.”

“I was an avid ballerina who worked odd jobs to support my mother, who was battling a brain tumor, and to keep up with my education,” Bensky said.

“One woman told me about a wealthy benefactor who could help. What started as a chance to pay for dance lessons turned into months of harassment,” she said. “Epstein used my mother’s illness to control me. He promised help and threatened to take her away if I spoke. It took me years to tell the truth, and I’m telling it now because so many people still believe this story should remain secret.”

Another victim, Annie Farmer, said in a statement: “When I was 16, I trusted adults who said they wanted to help me succeed. That trust was used to shape the rest of my life.”

Farmer also said: “Epstein’s protectors have had protection for decades. Survivors have decades of unanswered questions. Sharing remaining documents helps correct this imbalance.”

Trump, a Real Social post “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files,” he said Sunday.

“Because we have nothing to hide, and it is time to give up on this Democrat Fraud perpetrated by Radical Left Crazies to distract from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent victory over the Democrat ‘Shutdown,’” Trump wrote.

Despite Trump’s comment about Democrats, the measure was put forward by Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie. Massie said 100 or more Republicans in the House could vote for it.

Trump’s post comes after a House committee released emails that Epstein wrote years after his long friendship with Trump ended.

And it came days after Bondi said the Justice Department would, at Trump’s behest, investigate relationships between Epstein and former President Bill Clinton, JPMorgan Chase, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, billionaire tech investor Reid Hoffman and others.

Trump “knew about girls,” Epstein wrote to author Michael Wolff in April 2019, three months before Trump was arrested on child sex trafficking charges during his first term in the White House. The email did not say what Epstein meant by this. Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail in August 2019.

In December 2018, in response to an unidentified caller talking about Trump being the target of “taking him down,” Epstein said, “it’s crazy because I’m the one who can take him down.”

Years ago, in April 2011, Epstein wrote a letter to Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for enabling girls to be sexually abused by him.

“I want you to understand that the dog that doesn’t bark is trump,” Epstein wrote, without elaborating on what that meant.

“She was never mentioned,” Epstein wrote in the same email, of a woman identified as the victim of the incident in which she “spent hours at my home” with Trump.

Epstein’s emails were obtained from his estate through a subpoena issued by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Trump has denied knowing about Epstein’s serial sexual abuse of underage girls and young women while they were friends. The president has never been charged in connection with any of Epstein’s conduct.