Donald Trump Is A ███████ █████████

If you want to understand what kind of people would inflict a fresh round of suffering on the lives and souls of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and their wealthy friends, look no further than Washington, where Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, Kash Patel, and the Department of Justice just abused Epstein’s victims to protect Donald Trump and his friends from accountability.

The specific kind of pain Jeffrey Epstein’s victims carry, a long, chronic pain that doesn’t fade, doesn’t “move on,” doesn’t get politely folded into a news cycle, was made more acute this Friday, the government pretended to give them transparency and distributed an incomplete tranche of documents and photos redacted to protect Donald Trump and his allies.

This week, the Trump Justice Department did what this administration does best: it performed concern for victims while practicing control over the narrative. They complied with the concept of accountability and the aesthetics of disclosure, then used wildly overbroad redactions, selective releases, and procedural gamesmanship to make sure the public learned as little as possible about the things that actually matter.

And if you’re a survivor, if you were a child being trafficked, coerced, raped, used, manipulated, and discarded, what you’re hearing is simple:

We might protect your identity with a black redaction marker.

We will protect their identity with the awesome power of the federal government.

That’s the betrayal.

That’s the knife twist for the victims. You survived the predators. You survived the system that shrugged or looked away or, worst of all, laughed it off, for years. And now you’re watching the system do it again; only this time, it’s live-streamed, branded, and spun as a nothingburger.