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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Epstein Victims Call on Congress to Release Files as Trump Decries ‘Democratic Hoax’ [Watch (HLS stream): Epstein Victims Call on Congress to Release Files as Trump Decries ‘Democratic Hoax’](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/LTNgr3kW.m3u8) (3:41)  _Published 2025-09-03. A group of women who say they were abused by the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell gathered on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to share their accounts of sexual exploitation and put pressure on Republicans to back an effort that would force the Justice Department to release all of its files in the Epstein investigation._ --- Sep 3, 2025 8:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Watch: Jeffrey Epstein Victims and House Members Hold Press Conference Outside the U.S. Capitol](/video/9YSOH751/):30 ### Watch: Jeffrey Epstein Victims and House Members Hold Press Conference Outside the U.S. Capitol [Trump Official to Meet with Ghislaine Maxwell Amid Pressure Over Epstein Files](/video/tHl2eNz2/) ### Trump Official to Meet with Ghislaine Maxwell Amid Pressure Over Epstein Files ['I Wish Her Well,' Trump Says of Ghislaine Maxwell, Who Stands Accused of Facilitating the Abuse of Girls by Jeffrey Epstein](/video/JZ7iIQBY/) ### 'I Wish Her Well,' Trump Says of Ghislaine Maxwell, Who Stands Accused of Facilitating the Abuse of Girls by Jeffrey Epstein --- ## Transcript This is a crime that, by our Justice Department's own admission, has a thousand victims. A thousand victims. Do you know a thousand people? Think of the enormity of that. Could you be okay with a crime happening in your community to a thousand girls and young women, and not holding the perpetrators accountable? I think not. Congress must choose. Will you continue to protect predators, or will you finally protect survivors? We know the names. Many of us were abused by them. Now, together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know were regularly in the Epstein world. And it will be done by survivors and for survivors. No one else is involved. Our demands are clear. Elaine Maxwell must remain in a maximum security prison for the rest of her life. No leniency, no deals, no special treatment. Send it back to Florida. The Epstein documents must be unsealed. Every name, every name, every detail. No more secrets. No more protection for those who preyed on the vulnerable. Americans are asking a very simple question. How is it possible that in the richest, most powerful country in the world, there are corrupt special interest forces, both foreign or domestic, that are preventing the release? That have a stranglehold on our government and are preventing the release of the full Epstein files. There is something that is rotten in Washington. Less than 1% of these files have been released. We are demanding today on the discharge petition that all of the files be released. This is my fifth year in Congress, and this is the largest press conference that I've seen since I've been here. And this is because this is an issue that matters so much to Americans. This is an issue that doesn't have political boundaries. It's an issue that Republicans and Democrats should never fight about. As a matter of fact, it's such an important issue that it should bring us all together. So this is a Democrat hoax that never ends. You know, it reminds me a little of the Kennedy situation. We gave him everything over and over again, more and more and more. And nobody's ever satisfied, from what I understand. I could check, but from what I understand, thousands of pages of documents have been given. But it's really a Democrat hoax because they're trying to get people to talk about something that's totally irrelevant to the success that we've had as a nation since I've been president. So what they're trying to do with the Epstein hoax is get people to talk about that instead of speaking about the tremendous success, like ending seven wars. I ended seven wars. Nobody's going to talk about because they're going to talk about the Epstein whatever. I understand that we were subpoenaed to give files, and I understand we've given thousands of pages of files. And I know that no matter what you do, it's going to keep going. 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