by Stefano Vaccara
NEW YORK (UNITED STATES) (ITALPRESS) – After months of renewals, political pressure and attempts to cover, the House of Representatives of the United States votes tonight the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the law that imposes the Department of Justice the integral release of dossiers on sexual traffic organized by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Unlocking the impasse were neither the White House nor the Republican leadership, but a transversal front led by deputies Ro Khanna (Dem), Thomas Massie (Rep) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Rep), surrounded by survivors who transformed the Capitol into a moral requirement. The press conference, in front of the Capitol stairway, was once again a fist in the stomach, showing photos of abused adolescents. Wendy, today mother, has shouted what many Americans can no longer ignore: “Please approve the law. Please release the files. Stop fighting us alone for a truth that should protect us from the beginning.” Haley Robinson, directed directly to political power, said: “I’m traumatized, I’m not stupid. We’ve been subjected to so much stress. This is a free country, but today I don’t feel free.” Danny Bensky evoked the image that no legislator would like to see in his own conscience: “Close your eyes and think of a child between 14 and 18 years old. Now imagine it in front of Epstein’s wooden doors. Would you let her in? If the answer is yes, stay with the predators. If the answer is no, then you are on the side of justice.”.
Annie Farmer demolished every attempt to bend the case to electoral propaganda: “It is not the story of a few corrupt Democrats or few corrupt Republicans. It is an institutional betrayal.” He recalled that ignored complaints, coverts and secret agreements occurred under the administrations Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden and Trump: a continuous line of non-institutional transparency. The political bomb of the day launched Marjorie Taylor Greene, until a few days ago, an emblem of Trump’s loyalty. In front of the cameras, the MP accused his own leader: “It was one of the most destructive things for the MAGA movement to see the man we claimed to say that we are traitors only because we want transparency.” And again: “I was called a traitor to a man for whom I fought five, no, actually six years. I gave him my loyalty for free, and he called me a traitor because I joined these women and refused to withdraw my name from the petition.” Greene then returned the word “traitor” to his accuser: “A traitor is an American who serves foreign countries and himself. A patriot is an American who serves the United States of America. And Americans like women behind me.” And again: “I don’t take words seriously, just actions. The only thing that will speak for the powerful and brave surviving is the liberation of the dossiers.”.
After having for months hindered the vote, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson attempted a complex political justification, accusing the opposition to exploit the story: “This is not transparency, it is a political exercise Democrats want to link Trump to the scandal.” He defined the legislative text “dangerously defective” claiming that it could “reveal the identity of the victims” and even “create new victims”. Then he added: “The measure will go on not because it is written well, but because we have registered our objections.” A position that many activists call oxymoric: if Johnson considers the law a threat to the victims, why does he accept it? The implicit answer is political: since yesterday Trump, hostile for months to transparency, has suddenly stated that “it would impose” the law. In closing, Teresa, another survivor, set the goal of what is happening: “Without transparency there is no responsibility. Without responsibility there is no justice. And without justice, democracy dies.” The victims now call for rapid times to the Senate and the law arrives immediately after the presidential table: “When the President meets the survivors, it will be impossible not to act,” said Khanna.
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