I am reproducing a Substack piece by Lev Parnas:
Breaking Silence: Survivors Confront Trump as His Cover-Up Crumbles
While Trump scrambles jets and calls it a “hoax,” survivors speak their truth, Trump allies break ranks, and the demand to release the Epstein files grows louder than ever.
Sep 4 2025 READ IN APP
There are days in this fight that feel like history is being written in real time. Today was one of them. On the steps of Capitol Hill, survivors of Epstein’s horrors stood before the world — their voices trembling but unbroken, carrying truths too heavy for most of us to imagine. They spoke of the sick and twisted things done to them by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, exposing the darkness they had been forced to endure. It wasn’t just testimony — it was raw humanity, broken but unbent, demanding justice in the open air of our nation’s capital. And as their words poured out, I felt the weight of it — the pain, the courage, and the simple, undeniable truth that cannot and will not be erased.
Each survivor came forward with their own story. One survivor described how Epstein boasted about his friendship with Donald Trump, pointing to a picture of him and bragging that Trump was his “best friend.” She explained how intimidating that was — to realize the man abusing her was connected to power at the very top.

Another survivor turned directly to the cameras, speaking not to politicians or the crowd, but to Donald Trump himself. She made clear she wasn’t a Democrat, wasn’t a political adversary, but a registered Republican. Looking straight into the lens, she said: This is not a hoax. This is real. Her words cut through the noise, through the years of cover-ups, through every attempt to silence them.

Even one of the survivors’ lawyers stepped forward today, reminding everyone that back in 2009, Donald Trump himself had been willing to help. He said Trump cooperated at the time, that he was ready to provide information against Epstein. So what happened? What changed? Why is he now standing at the White House podium calling this a “Democratic hoax”? Why is he working overtime to bury the very truth he once seemed prepared to expose?

The answer is simple: because now Trump is the one with everything to lose. Transparency that once cost him nothing now threatens to take down the entire house of cards he’s built.
But even as these voices rose, something else was happening across the street. Inside the White House, Donald Trump was staging his own circus. As survivors pleaded for truth, he scrambled jets overhead in a flyover meant to drown them out.

As they begged Congress and the DOJ to release the files, Trump held a press conference with the President of Poland, dismissing everything as the “Democratic Epstein hoax.” Once again, he mocked the pain of survivors, trying to twist justice into a punchline.

Just think about it — this is the same Donald Trump who ran his whole campaign on exposing the “Deep State,” on promising to reveal the Epstein files, on railing against child predators, and who never missed a chance to preach about transparency. The same Trump who now claims he’s the victim of conspiracies, who insists the Epstein case is nothing more than a “Democratic hoax.” Yet even when Marjorie Taylor Greene herself came forward, asking Trump to host the survivors at the White House where they belong, he refused.

Instead, he doubled down, once again calling it a “Democratic hoax.” As I’ve been telling you all along, Donald Trump is not trying to get to the truth. Donald Trump is trying to cover up the truth. He is rewriting history, doing everything possible to bury it under noise, distraction, and denial.
And behind those walls, Trump’s White House is pressuring GOP congressmen and women not to sign the bill to release the Epstein files. They’ve gone so far as to label transparency itself a “Hostile Act” against the administration. This is not leadership. This is corruption in plain sight.

But here’s where the ground shifted today. I told you this morning — there are moving parts. It’s not just Dan Bongino anymore. What we saw today was even his closest allies — Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace, Anna Paulina Luna — stepping out of line, speaking directly to Trump and their colleagues, pleading for the files to be released.

After sitting with the survivors and listening to their stories, they couldn’t keep quiet anymore. Nancy Mace ran out in tears.

Luna held a press conference, declaring that “a lot of powerful people must be held accountable.” Even Greene, who has stood by Trump through everything, called on him to open the doors of the White House to these victims. That’s the power of truth. That’s the power of survivors refusing to be silenced.

Most of the 200 GOP representatives still aren’t saying a word. They want distance. They want silence. They want to hide and hope this storm passes them by before the midterms. But silence is complicity. And the American people — Republicans, Democrats, independents alike — overwhelmingly want the Epstein files released. They want the truth. They want accountability. They want justice for the children, for the survivors, for the victims who can no longer speak.
This isn’t about left or right. It isn’t about blue or red. It’s about truth. It’s about justice. And if Congress refuses to act, we will expose them.
Now more than ever, spread this message far and wide. Share it.
NB. John Paulson is pouring money in with other donors to suppress survivors listing names, he is a major donor to Mike Johnson as well as Donald Trump.
He made 20 billion dollars by short betting on insider knowledge which resulted in the 2008 crash.
If you’ve been following the broader conversation around political donors and accountability, you might’ve seen John Paulson’s name surface in a place you wouldn’t expect: a connection to Jeffrey Epstein’s list. Yes, the hedge fund billionaire who made headlines for betting against the housing market has found himself part of a different kind of headline. This all started after Representative Thomas Massie name-dropped the billionaire as being in Jeffrey’s little black book.
https://www.distractify.com/p/john-paulson-epstein-list
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