Let's make today another important date in American history and take a stand against corruption and deception
Epstein's victims are pleading for our help. All it takes is a phone call.
Today is a special day in American history. On this date in 1783, the Revolutionary War officially came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
While Americans had declared their independence from Great Britain’s rule in 1776, it wasn’t until the end of the war that the thirteen colonies were fully recognized as “free, sovereign, and independent states.”
The open question at the time was straightforward: Having won their freedom, could the new United States keep it?
One of the greatest challenges took place 86,688 days after the signing of the Treaty of Paris when a mob of thousands of angry protesters, egged on by a defeated president, stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and tried to overturn all that hard work and sacrifice.
It was a mob fueled by lies by a liar, Donald Trump, who four years and fourteen days afterward would once again be sworn-in as president, having promised his supporters that when assuming office he’d be a “dictator for a day.”
A shocking number of people think that’s a fine idea. This from columnist Mark Schulman on what the polls show:
Even today, Trump was in his office extolling his greatness and disparaging his political enemies, this time a group of women, victims of sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
The women were on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, just over a mile away, at an extraordinary press conference in which they pleaded with members of Congress to release the entirety of the Epstein Files.
“We are the Americans you promised to protect,” victim Jena-Lisa Jones said.
But in the White House, Trump told reporters it was all just a plot to distract Americans from his accomplishments.
"It was a hoax. It's all been a big hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats and some stupid Republicans, and foolish Republicans fall into the net. And so they try and do the Democrats’ work. The Democrats are good for nothing other than these hoaxes.”
What the press and public should be concentrating on are all his successes, he argued. Like ending all those wars, solving the crime problem, redecorating the White House. It’s all part of the “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” he said, an incurable disease.
So many hoaxes.
The investigation into Russian election interference? A hoax.
Trump’s health issues. Fake news. He’s “fit as a fiddle,” he says.
Sexual assault allegations against him by E. Jean Carroll? A hoax. Never mind that a jury found him liable and awarded Carroll millions.
That Joe Biden won his election. The biggest hoax ever.
As so on.
But the damage done to the women who stood before the Capitol today is no hoax. Which is why they are demanding an end to what they believe is a coverup.
Sure, Epstein’s dead and, yes, Maxwell is in jail—even though it’s a cush prison spa in Texas instead of maximum security lockup in Florida where she was housed until recently.
But the coverup is about more than the immediate perpetrators. Many powerful people have much to lose if those files are opened up, the women and their attorneys argue. And justice will not be delivered until then.
During the Watergate era, it was commonly understood that the scandal—the break-in at the Democratic Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel during Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign—was bad. But far worse were the lies told to conceal it.
“It’s not the crime, it’s the coverup” became the mantra.
In Epstein’s case, while it’s true that the crimes were horrendous, the fact that Trump himself has weighed in to urge the House Republicans to block efforts to release the Epstein Files fairly shouts “coverup.”
Why are things covered up? Because they conceal corruption. And this is not a hoax, no matter what He Who Protests Too Much says.
It takes a majority of the House of Representatives to bring the Epstein Files Transparency Act up for a vote. It is almost certain to get all the Democrats’ votes. Which means that at least six Republicans will have to go along.
One of those whose vote can be counted on is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, of all people, who spoke at the Capitol Steps presser this morning. For the first time that I can ever recall, she was eloquent, logical, and I agreed with everything she said. I never thought I’d see the day.
“I’m not afraid to name names. If they want to give me a list, I will walk in the Capitol on the House floor, and I’ll say every damn name that abused these women. I can do that for them, and I’d be proud to do that.”
The bill needs more supporters. You can make your voice heard. Here’s a list of the entire Florida Congressional delegation and their phone numbers. For all of the girls—many from Florida—who were victims of Epstein’s depravity, we owe them at least a phone call.
We can make today another special day in American history. The day we stood with victims of atrocious crime and demanded transparency and honesty from our government.
FLORIDA CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION
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J.C. Bruce, journalist and author, is the founder of Tropic Press. He holds dual citizenship in the United States of America and his native Florida. Share this email with your friends. They will love you for it.
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