Reading · Adriana Trigiani

The full and unredacted release of the Epstein Files has never been a political issue, it’s a moral one. Sadly, many of us can’t get out from under our umbrellas to see that it’s raining. Whether you are a Democrat, Republican, MAGA or Independent, we can agree that the Epstein crime ring, the systematic sex trafficking of children to the most wealthy, connected and powerful men in their exclusive buddy/buddy sphere is the definitive story of our times, and therefore requires our attention until justice is served for the victims. Our insistence at holding those in power to account, or lack of it, tells us who we are and what we hold sacred—

To be a woman of any age or a child in the United States of America is to be considered less than any man by the current Department of Justice and the United States government.

The sex trafficking of children over decades by Epstein and Maxwell was financially funneled through legitimate banking institutions in order to service the demonic proclivities of wealthy men. The Epstein Files has revealed how deeply rooted the misogyny is in our country and around the world. To be a woman of any age or a child in the United States of America is to be considered less than any man by the current Department of Justice and the United States government.

Once we the people understood the breadth of the crime ring, we demanded the full release of the Epstein Files. We want to understand who was involved and what their roles were in the perpetuation of the crimes against our children. President Trump signed the law for the total release of the files in November 2025. Despite the passing of that law, we have yet to have access them in full. However, the trickle of justice has begun as some of the victims present their case in hearings on Capitol Hill. Mrs. Trump, the First Lady, supported hearings on behalf of the victims. The hearings, at long last, commenced.

The determination of the victims has been inspiring to witness. Dani Bensky testified with clarity and truth about her experience in the aftermath of the abuse.

The determination of the victims has been inspiring to witness. Dani Bensky testified with clarity and truth about her experience in the aftermath of the abuse. The botched and partial release of the Epstein Files has victimized her along with the other children, now adults, all over again. She spoke of the pain of having her image and private information left unredacted in the first wave of the release of the Epstein Files. During the second wave of the release, after having her attorney represent and plead for her privacy, the inept Justice Department bungled it all over again, forcing the victims to come forward publicly to plead for privacy for themselves and their families. This mess was funded by we the people with our tax dollars.

Mr. Todd Blanche was confirmed as Attorney General of the United States in a split vote in the Senate. He is the same man who told the victims to Get to the point in his meeting with them—which he conducted only because he needed two critical votes for confirmation by two senators who withheld them until Blanche met with the victims. Alas, Mr. Blanche didn’t meet with the victims because he believed them and was determined to seek justice on their behalf, instead, he reluctantly met with them to secure his own power and the position of AG. Remember, Mr. Blanche botched the second wave of release of the Epstein Files after his inept predecessor, Pam Bondi, botched the first wave. Of course, she blamed Blanche after she was canned. These chuckleheads can’t even be loyal to each other. How could they possibly have any fealty to the American people? Or the victims? Well, they don’t.

To date, only Ghislaine Maxwell, who deserves to rot prison, is serving time. Not a single perv named in the Epstein Files, despite damning evidence, has been arrested. Please look to the UK and the round-up of their sleazebags! Their smoke-out included that indolent Andrew, formerly a prince, along with a few politicians and oligarchs, all of whom participated in the crimes against children. Why do we lag behind the UK when the United States was Epstein’s base of operations? He established, financed and operated his sex trafficking empire in the USA! Epstein’s real estate included: a Florida compound, a fancy Manhattan townhouse, a ranch out west, an island bankrolled and facilitated through with monies from US banks. They were all in on it. Businessmen, bankers, hedge fund hotshots knew something was wrong as millions of dollars on behalf of Epstein were moved through accounts—and yet, they questioned nothing and allowed this crime ring to build and therefore flourish for decades.

Hedge Fund billionaire Leon Black holds more sway in the United States justice system than a sex trafficked child born in poverty, desperate for food, clothing and shelter. Epstein and Black were in business for decades, according to the emails. Black says he knew Jekyl (Epstein) and not Hyde (Epstein). There were pay-outs to mistresses, buy outs, tax shenanigans, all matter of grift and theft! All of it handled by Epstein on behalf of Black. Follow the evidence! Read Black’s testimony! He paid Epstein millions since the 1990s for estate planning and tax advice. Over 100 million dollars—any certified accountant will tell you—even the most expensive among them, he or she collects nowhere near that figure in fees. There was more going on there than deciding who had the Diet Coke at the business lunch.

Who financed Epstein’s island? The private jets? Who paid for it?

How is it that the men who funded, sustained and/or sexually abused victims through the Epstein and Maxwell’s crime ring are walking around free? How is this possible in this great nation? These “powerful” men are failures and losers on every level that counts—as decent human beings, as citizens and as protectors of the weak and vulnerable. They throw their money around, truck from one fancy location to another, sail on their yachts that stink of seawater and piss (no matter how opulent), grovel to perceived power and in the process lost their souls. They deserve to fall like dominoes!

The rich are crafty, I will give them that. They know how to slow the roll in our justice system with log jams, stalemates, running out the legal clock with gobbledygook and excuses! Gutless politicians keep the racket going, and thanks to Citizens United, there is no cap on the billions the wealthy throw at campaigns in exchange for favors.

If you believe that the rich and connected are judged in our legal system by the same standards as the rest of us, you would be sadly mistaken. And, even when our elected representatives tried to expose the Epstein Maxwell crime ring and its participants, our Congressional representatives in both parties: including Ro Kanna, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Thomas Massie find themselves out of favor with their parties and those in power. It makes you wonder why. Keep in mind Greene and Massie are exiled because they listened to their constituents in the MAGA party and pursued the release of the files. Greene and Massie had the temerity to say: the sex trafficking of children is wrong, the guilty should be held to account. Thank you for your service—you no longer have your jobs, but at least you can sleep at night.

They say that Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019 by his own hand in prison, but I have a hard time believing that. He was a man who repeatedly slipped the noose, and frankly, was such a deeply disturbed man, I doubt he believed his incarceration was permanent. He would never have committed suicide because he knew he could buy his freedom. He was sitting in that jail cell waiting for some invincible lawyer to come and fetch him for the right price. He was not plotting his own demise. Epstein had too much power, he trucked with oligarchs who manipulate politicians and financial institutions with ease. Epstein felt safe. Besides, these creeps manage to buy and sell their way out of any situation, even when there’s proof of their guilt. There are not only separate rules for the wealthy and connected, it seems there are separate interpretations of the law for these pervs.

There’s a major development covered in an in-depth exposé in The New York Times. We have been led to believe that Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were a couple, but they were not. Maxwell was in cahoots with Epstein to sex traffick children to feed her own sick perversion from the start. She exploited the children as much as Epstein. She wasn’t sexually abusing these children because Epstein made her do harm, she was as diabolical as he was! Of course, she was well compensated in millions for supplying children to the crime ring. Maxwell was also in it for the money.

Epstein (outside and in addition the sexual abuse of children he personally engaged in) had a girlfriend named Karyna Shuliak, (who may or may not have once been his victim), for the last 8 years of his life. Epstein sent her to dental school at Columbia, and set up her citizenship in a sham same sex marriage. (If anyone else is appalled at the manipulation of the immigration system by players like Epstein, you have plenty of company.)

Dr. Shuliak (she is a dentist whose education was reportedly financed by Epstein) is set to receive a 100 million dollar inheritance from the Epstein estate. This upends the idea that Maxwell was forced to lure children into Epstein’s scheme. Maxwell wasn’t Epstein’s wife, she was a business partner, groomer of defenseless children, co-conspirator and ringleader in their child sex trafficking ring! Maxwell was a founding member of this cabal. Her pleas from prison for mercy are hollow, and it should be of deep concern to every American that she has positioned herself for a pardon, and that Mr. Blanche flew to Texas to meet with Maxwell in prison. Soon after their tete a tete, for which there is no recording, she was moved to a minimum security prison for her comfort. Mr. Blanche denies that their meeting and her subsequent move to a posh prison had anything to do with one another. These folks think we’re stupid. You can write to the new Attorney General here to voice your outrage.

While the justice department squanders their energies on the likes of Ghislaine Maxwell, the victims are ignored.

While the justice department squanders their energies on the likes of Ghislaine Maxwell, the victims are ignored. We are paying for this with our tax dollars. We are getting hosed. The Epstein Files is only one example of how little they think of the rights of women and children. The process at the DOJ inflicted more harm on the victims while continuing to protect the perps and pervs of the uber wealthy class who abused our children. As the rich get richer, more excuses are made for their heinous and illegal behavior. I hope Mr. Blanche experiences an epiphany and wakes up tomorrow morning with a conscience that encourages him to pursue justice for the victims and not the sex predators.

There’s the old scripture about a camel having an easier time passing through the eye of needle than a rich man entering heaven. These rich bastards believe their billions will save them. These men believe they can out run time itself, and somehow, on their deathbeds, will be able to buy their way of dying. But they will die someday, and they will be held accountable. On this side of heaven, the truth lives in history. The men can feign outrage, but we know what they did—and we know how they did it. Their sick perversions against children didn’t end with the death of Epstein and the incarceration of Maxwell, global channels remain to funnel funds (and children in poverty) to continue to serve their perversions unless we stop them. This makes the pursuit of justice for the victims here in the United States more urgent than ever.

Never forget how terrified those children were in dark rooms with those men—who can’t be called human—they are in fact, forms of the devil. They were old men with big bank accounts who felt entitled to abuse children—poor, unconnected, powerless children- they were sought as prey by Maxwell, the predator, on behalf of Epstein, a perv and a predator himself. The worst part? It went on for years after Epstein was caught. Read the testimony of the women who were broken all over again when Epstein was freed.

If we have any decency left in this beautiful country, if we care at all about children, if we recognize how routinely children are exploited by disgusting men in power, if we own the pain of these children, in order to be part of their healing, we will read these files and know how deeply this racket went and how those in power exploited those children with an ease that could only be described as demonic.

Heed the cries and excuses of the friends of Epstein as the partial files were released: I was on the plane but I never touched a child! I went to his home for dinner but didn’t see anything! I needed funding to research my academic project! It was just a walk in Central Park—Epstein and Prince Andy! Who were the people conned by Epstein? For starters, they were all wealthy or in pursuit of money, no matter how ill gotten. They work in the halls of power! They ran Ivy League schools! A prince whose mother was a queen! Academics! A president of Harvard who needed to cover up an extra marital affair with Epstein’s help. Peggy Siegel, a Hollywood publicist who offered to bring a baby from Africa to satiate Epstein’s sick perversions. She used her exposure in the Epstein Files to pose poolside, barefoot for a puff piece in New York Magazine to redeem herself. Wake up, Peggy. That ain’t the redemption you should be seeking.

We hire these people when we vote.

Our government? Why do they behave as though they are on the side of the criminals? We hire these people when we vote. They get in these jobs and yes, once in the lap of luxury in the halls of power and connection, often become soft and gross gluttons of privilege who use our tax dollars to fund their dirty schemes. Harry Truman said “Anyone that gets rich in public service is a crook.” Yes, Harry! They want bigger and better jobs with our approval and on our dime. Let’s not sign the check! Let’s stop these bastards in their avaricious and power mad money grabs! Let’s elect good people who want justice for the least of our brothers and sisters, who want to make life better for the American people and serve. There are good people in this world, and yes, some are wealthy. Folks like the late Agnes Gund had values to match their wealth and made a difference in the lives of children. It is possible to do the right thing, but we have to fight for it together.

The victims of Epstein and Maxwell want very little from the system that ignored their cries. They want their privacy, their peace, they want to live their lives and love their spouses and raise their children, and yes, they need our help to do so. Our support. Our belief in their stories. They work hard to put what happened to them in a context so that it doesn’t haunt their every waking moment, but as we know, they are haunted and have to fight the despair and depression that comes with childhood trauma. And now, these victims, these children, now women, are being denied the basic rights of privacy from our government. It is unconscionable.

The government is hoping that we stop talking about the Epstein Files. They believe if they ignore us long enough, we will go away. We can not let this happen. The key to all of the dirty dealing is to hold these men to account, to hold them to their emails, their money laundering and their schemes. The perpetrators are cowards, quaking in their boots. Names appear in the Epstein Files, some as many as 8,000 times! They tell you in plain language what their intentions were for our children, our young daughters. And, in many instances, they are laughing about their perversions. Let’s put these men on the stand in a court of law. Not one of them has manned up and owned their sins, but we’ve got the evidence, the proof and the honest accounts of the victims. The women raise their voices in the hopes that this never happens to another child again. As long as these perps roam free, we have no guarantee that the exploitation of children will end. They won’t stop unless we stop them.

The defense of our children is the point, whatever peace we can provide to the victims by believing them, bearing witness and standing with them will go a long way to heal them.

The defense of our children is the point, whatever peace we can provide to the victims by believing them, bearing witness and standing with them will go a long way to heal them. The banks will clean up their acts and be more diligent. We will elect people that represent decency and values, and not the interests of the oligarch class. We can change the world because there are more angels than devils. (By the way, the devil knows it, which is why he gets his hooks in deep.)

As for the bastards that think they’re getting away with it? They are not. Mr. Blanche, you are our attorney general now and we need you to stand with us, with the victims of Epstein and Maxwell. I hope you have had a change of heart after meeting with the victims. I hope you feel badly that you snapped at them. You can apologize for that, if you choose to do so. Please stand up for the children that were sex trafficked and change the course of history. Speak to your wife and daughters and friends. They will share what it is like to be a woman in the United States of America. We need a justice system that seeks it for us, and it starts with you.

For further reading, we provide a list and links below of journalists you can follow who have covered the Epstein Files for years and know the score. As always, we rely on Julie k Brown, Heather Cox Richardson and Katie Couric for insights, conversations and dialogue with guests and experts that give insight into this national and international tragedy.

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