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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rhian Lubin

Epstein victim who voted for Trump blasts president for calling survivors liars: ‘I put my hope in him’

A survivor of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein who voted for President Donald Trump has blasted him for reducing the scandal to a “hoax.”

Jena-Lisa Jones was introduced to the late pedophile when she was just 14 years old and was one of the women who shared her harrowing ordeal at Wednesday’s press conference on Capitol Hill. Survivors joined Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to back a discharge petition that would force the Trump administration to release all of the Epstein files.

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