Epstein Survivor Calls for Trump's Impeachment over Epstein Files: 'I Redact Any Support I've Ever Given to Him' By Kyler Alvord 132

A Jeffrey Epstein survivor who lobbied for the release of the so-called “Epstein files” this year is expressing her dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump and his administrators.

“I am no longer supporting this administration,” Haley Robson, a Republican, told CNN’s Pamela Brown on Tuesday, Dec. 23. “I redact any support I’ve ever given to him, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel. I am so disgusted with this administration.”

Robson — who has spoken about meeting Epstein as a 16-year-old in West Palm Beach, Fla. — was a vocal backer of the House of Representatives’ Epstein Files Transparency Act, appearing twice outside the U.S. Capitol to publicly share her story and urge for the government to reveal what it knows about the powerful men who participated in Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking operation.

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The Epstein Files Transparency Act was passed by the House with an overwhelming 427-1 vote on Nov. 18, and the Senate unanimously sent it to the president’s desk hours later. Trump signed the bill into law on Nov. 19, starting a 30-day timer for his administration to publicly release all unclassified files related to the Epstein probe that would not directly jeopardize an active investigation or reveal sensitive information about victims.

As the deadline rolled around, the Department of Justice stated that it would not be able to fully comply with the law, noting that DOJ staffers needed more time to review the hundreds of thousands of documents and redact details as necessary.

“There’s a lot of eyes looking at these and we want to make sure that when we do produce the materials we are producing, that we are protecting every single victim,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News on Dec. 19, also saying that staff “have been working tirelessly since [the bill was signed] to make sure that we get every single document that we have within the Department of Justice, review it and get it to the American public.”

When the first batch of files were released on Friday, Dec. 19, they mostly featured photos, including ones that showed former President Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Michael Jackson. The public figures featured in the photos are not accused of any criminal behavior, and the photos were released without context.

Since then, thousands more documents have been released, many of which included major redactions that omitted significant details.

Among the trove of documents was an apparent FBI intake report from an October 2020 interview, which featured an uncorroborated rape allegation against Trump that the DOJ characterized as “untrue and sensationalist.”

There were also some dubious pieces of visual evidence that ended up on the DOJ website, including a clearly fake video of Epstein’s jail-cell suicide that was uploaded and later removed.

On Tuesday, Dec. 23, PEOPLE discovered an unauthenticated suicide note from “J. Epstein” to sex offender Larry Nassar among the files, which accused Trump of sharing their “love of young, nubile girls.”

The White House initially declined to comment on the unverified note, instead referring PEOPLE to a DOJ statement about how the Epstein files include some “unfounded” allegations against the president.

Hours after PEOPLE and other outlets had reported on the strange note that appeared in the files, the White House reached back out to PEOPLE with new statements from the DOJ that said an FBI investigation had just determined the note was “FAKE” and warned not to trust the legitimacy of all documents included in the Epstein files, seemingly casting doubt on the newly unsealed evidence as a whole.

Reacting to the messy rollout of the Epstein files, Robson told CNN, “I think that Pam Bondi and Kash Patel both need to resign, and I would love to see No. 47 get impeached over this.”

She then appeared to reference comments from Trump made on Dec. 22, when the president said it’s a “terrible thing” that photos of famous people were being released in the Epstein files, because some “had nothing to do with Epstein” and simply happened to cross paths with him at some point.

“If you’re telling the public and the world and the survivors that just because somebody is in a picture with him doesn’t automatically mean they were involved in the crimes against children — which I understand, and I get that fully — then why are you so scared to release the files and why has there been so much resistance?” Robson wondered aloud.

“If it’s just a picture, why are you going above and beyond to hide the identities of these men?”

Robson has claimed that she was pulled into Epstein’s orbit by a high school classmate in 2002, when she was still wrangling with the effects of childhood trauma.

“I was told the more you do, the more you make,” Robson told CBS News in 2021. “I was told it would be possibly in your bra and underwear, but it would just be a massage.”

She alleges that Epstein masturbated in front of her and fondled her during a massage, but she didn’t let it go any further. “I did not understand that I was being sexually abused. I didn’t understand how to really classify that. Is it sexual assault? Is it rape? Is it molestation? I am 16,” she recalled to the outlet.

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Epstein allegedly offered to give her $200 for every girl that she introduced to the wealthy financier, and she says she recruited a total of eight other girls, not grasping the damage she was doing. “When I was 16, I felt like, ‘Hey, you know, I made money like, do you guys want to make money,'” Robson said of her thought process at the time.

“The guilt will never go away,” she told CBS. “There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about the other girls.”