Christina Lorey – Today, Trump blamed the Epstein victims…

“I’m OK with it but I understand that the women didn’t want to go under oath, that’s what I heard,” Trump told reporters. “That the women, or the victims or whatever, they refused to go under oath. Which was a little surprising.”

Survivors have NOT ruled out testifying, though several victims have accused the first lady of “shifting the burden” on them in an effort to protect people in power, including the president.

“Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein have already shown extraordinary courage by coming forward, filing reports and giving testimony,” a group of 15 survivors wrote in a statement last week.

“Asking more of them now is a deflection of responsibility, not justice,” they added.

Marina Lacerda, who was identified in a 2019 indictment against Epstein as “Minor-Victim 1, posted a video on Instagram after Melania Trump’s remarks questioning whether a hearing would produce anything meaningful.

“You want to retraumatize us and ask us to go in front of Congress and tell them our story, which we have told some of them already,” she said. “And then do absolutely nothing.”