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Epstein files contain explicit claim that Trump abused minor (www.theguardian.com)
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Note: These were collected by someone else and are what's missing from the Epstein files. They were previously released.

In the files, you can see that there was a witness willing to testify, so I took out "unsubstantiated" in the headline:

Three memos that describe four interviews conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2019 contain explicit but unsubstantiated claims that Donald Trump sexually abused a woman when she was a minor in the early 1980s with the assistance of Jeffrey Epstein, according to a Guardian review of those documents.

The Department of Justice did not release those records when it uploaded millions of pages of files related to Epstein beginning in December. The existence of the missing documents was first reported by independent journalist Roger Sollenberger and subsequently confirmed by NPR, causing outrage in Washington and sparking an investigation from congressional Democrats.

The Guardian obtained the missing FBI form 302 reports, which memorialize 25 pages of agents’ notes from the four interviews conducted in the summer and fall of 2019. The notes describe how the woman came forward to tell agents she recognized Epstein from a photo sent by a childhood friend. Only the first session, in which she did not name Trump, made it into the public release. The Guardian has chosen not to publish the woman’s name.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a big part of the problem: much of the best evidence, photos and videos of victims, many of them underage, in compromising situations, would be extreme privacy issues as best, and actual child porn at worst.

We are so conditioned to accept photographic evidence over everything else, that we never really fully believe anything unless we've seen video or photos of it. This evidence exists in the Epstein Files, but it can never be released. It's a Catch-22 that protects the worst people on the planet.

If that information came out, people would be outraged. I read a DESCRIPTION of a photograph of an underage girl being abused by several men, and just the description outraged me. There was blood, and the girl looked semi-conscious, and she said that she thought she was going to die. As it turns out, that was only ONE photo out of ten photos of this girl. But since the photos can't be shown, it doesn't make the media, which generally relies on visual media these days.

It's time for ALL those photos to get graphic descriptions, and start releasing those descriptions with big media promotion. Just the descriptions will make people demand justice.