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Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump

From: LabNews Media LLC
Date: November 17, 2025

President Donald J. Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Subject: Immediate Demand for Full Disclosure of the Epstein Files and Your Resignation in the Name of Justice for the Victims

President Trump,

On behalf of LabNews Media LLC, a publication dedicated to uncovering truths that powerful institutions would rather bury, we address you directly and without equivocation. The shadows cast by Jeffrey Epstein’s depraved empire have lingered far too long, ensnaring not just the lives of the vulnerable but the very integrity of American governance. Today, as the House of Representatives teeters on the brink of a vote to compel the Justice Department to release its withheld Epstein files— a vote you yourself, in a transparent reversal of your administration’s stonewalling, now claim to support—we demand more than performative gestures. We demand action: the unredacted, comprehensive disclosure of every document, email, flight log, witness interview, and surveillance record in the government’s possession related to Epstein’s sex-trafficking network. And we demand your immediate resignation from the presidency, not as a political cudgel, but as an indispensable step toward restoring faith in leadership for the survivors whose voices you have, time and again, marginalized.

Let us dispense with the feigned outrage and partisan deflections that have defined your administration’s response to this crisis. The Epstein saga is no „Democrat hoax,“ as you repeatedly labeled it on Truth Social and in Oval Office remarks this past week. It is a meticulously documented chronicle of predation, enabled by elites across aisles, including your own documented ties to the perpetrator. Epstein did not operate in isolation; his web ensnared politicians, financiers, and celebrities, trafficking underage girls for sexual exploitation under the guise of elite camaraderie. Newly released emails from Epstein’s estate, subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee and made public on November 12, 2025, lay bare the complicity at the highest levels. In one 2011 correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein wrote that you „spent hours at my house“ with one of his victims—identified by your White House as the late Virginia Giuffre—referring to you as the „dog that hasn’t barked.“ In a 2019 email to author Michael Wolff, Epstein explicitly stated that you „knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.“ These are not anonymous leaks or fabricated smears; they are primary-source artifacts from Epstein’s own words, corroborating survivor accounts and flight logs that place you on his aircraft multiple times in the 1990s.

Your relationship with Epstein, spanning nearly two decades from the late 1980s, was no casual acquaintance. As Epstein himself boasted to a New York Post reporter in 2002, „I was Donald’s closest friend for 10 years.“ You reciprocated the familiarity, hosting him at Mar-a-Lago, where Giuffre—then a 17-year-old spa attendant—was first recruited into his orbit. Flight manifests confirm your presence on Epstein’s „Lolita Express“ jet, ferrying guests to his private island where unspeakable abuses occurred. While you now tout a supposed 2004 falling-out—claiming you banned him from your club for being a „creep“—this narrative crumbles under scrutiny. Emails from 2015 show Epstein and Wolff strategizing „PR and political currency“ to shield you from questions about your Epstein ties during a CNN interview. And as recently as July 2025, your brother Mark Epstein publicly contradicted your denials, emphasizing the depth of your association and refuting claims that you were never in Epstein’s orbit. These facts are not conjecture; they are etched in federal records, court filings, and the unyielding testimonies of those who survived.

The victims—women and girls groomed, assaulted, and discarded by Epstein’s machine—deserve far better than your selective transparency. Since your inauguration in January 2025, your Justice Department, under Attorney General Pam Bondi, has dribbled out thousands of pages to congressional oversight, but withheld the core: unredacted witness interviews, video evidence, and client lists that could expose enablers. Bondi herself admitted in an August Fox News interview that Epstein’s files „sit on my desk right now to review,“ yet months later, critical portions remain sealed. This is not protection of privacy; it is protection of power. Survivors like Danielle Bensky, Anouska De Georgiou, and Marina Lacerda have not minced words. In a September 3, 2025, press conference on Capitol Hill, flanked by bipartisan lawmakers including Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), they demanded the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Bill, which would mandate full release with redactions only for victim identities and active probes. „We are not asking for pity,“ declared Lacerda, a Brazilian model abused from age 14. „We are demanding accountability.“ Bensky echoed this in a November 16 public service announcement produced by World Without Exploitation, holding a photo of her younger self: „It’s time to bring the secrets out of the shadows.“ Their plea is echoed by eight survivors in that video, representing thousands more: „Five administrations and we’re still in the dark.“

Your abrupt U-turn on November 16—urging House Republicans via Truth Social to „vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide“—reeks of desperation, not redemption. For months, you and Speaker Mike Johnson orchestrated a blockade, holding Situation Room meetings on November 12 to pressure GOP holdouts like Massie, whom you branded a „traitor“ and threatened with primary challenges. You withdrew endorsement from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after her vocal push for disclosure, calling her a „disgrace“ on CNN’s State of the Union. Even as the House Oversight Committee released 23,000 pages of Epstein’s emails last week—revealing your name dozens of times—you deflected by directing Bondi to probe Epstein’s ties to Democrats like Bill Clinton, ignoring bipartisan entanglements. This is classic misdirection: launch parallel „investigations“ into phantom Democratic conspiracies while burying the files that implicate your circle. Rep. Massie called it a „big smokescreen“ on November 16, a last-ditch ploy to stall the inevitable. Democrats on the committee, led by Ranking Member Robert Garcia, have decried it as a cover-up, noting that 97% of DOJ releases were already public, with no client list or new accountability.

The human cost of this evasion is staggering. Epstein’s victims, many minors when abused, continue to battle PTSD, financial ruin, and societal stigma. Giuffre, who died by suicide in April 2025, spent her final years advocating for disclosure, testifying that while you never abused her directly, your presence in Epstein’s world normalized the horror. Lacerda, whose evidence was pivotal in Epstein’s 2008 non-prosecution agreement—later revealed as a sweetheart deal under Acosta, whom you elevated to Labor Secretary in 2017—still grapples with shame, coerced into silence by threats. Phillips, another survivor, has compiled lists of Epstein’s „regulars“ from her own encounters, demanding Congress identify those who „received sexual favors.“ These women are not political pawns; they are the moral core of this reckoning. Full disclosure would validate their trauma, enable civil suits, and deter future predators. Withholding it perpetuates the very elite impunity Epstein exploited.

President Trump, your presidency was built on promises of „draining the swamp.“ Yet here you stand, knee-deep in its murkiest waters, shielding files that could illuminate the depravity you once called out. Resignation is not hyperbole; it is justice. No leader entangled in such shadows can credibly govern. Step aside, allow a successor untainted by this scandal to execute the transparency you now feign to champion, and let the victims‘ healing begin. The House vote tomorrow is a litmus test: sign the bill without delay, release everything, and exit the stage. History will judge you not by your reversals, but by whether you finally chose truth over self-preservation.

The American people—and above all, Epstein’s survivors—watch with unforgiving eyes. Act now, or be remembered as the guardian of secrets that should have died with Epstein.

Sincerely,

Editorial Board
LabNews Media LLC
Washington, D.C.


This open letter is published in the public interest and draws on verified public records, congressional releases, and survivor testimonies as of November 17, 2025. LabNews Media LLC stands with victims of sexual exploitation worldwide.