A survivor of Jeffrey Epstein‘s sex trafficking ring who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 is speaking out against the president, accusing him of “hiding” the truth of the Epstein files.
Jena-Lisa Jones, who met Epstein when she was 14 years old. Jones told Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” Wednesday that she voted for Trump with the belief that he would “protect” other survivors like her.
“I voted for him,” Jones said. “I voted for Trump. And for him to say what he is saying, it is beyond me. Because I put my hope in him! And he’s supposed to protect us!”
Following a Wednesday press conference of Epstein survivors on Capitol Hill, Trump called the Epstein scandal a “Democrat hoax that never ends.”
Jones pushed back against Trump’s words, accusing him of “hiding” the truth of the Epstein files for someone within the files.
“There is no one that is accusing him of any wrongdoing,” Jones told O’Donnell. “So for the fact that he is saying those things. and saying it’s a hoax, who are you hiding for then? Because if it’s not you, then who is it? And that scares me. Who is it?”
When O’Donnell asked Jones what she would say to Trump if given the chance, she asked to Trump to think of his daughter, Ivanka Trump.
“Could you imagine if that was your daughter that was trafficked to people,” Jones said. “Could you imagine your 14-year-old daughter having to go through what we had to go through, and then you sit here and say what you said? You should be supporting us. You should backing us.”
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“I put my hope in you when I voted for you for our country,” Jones continued, “and you can’t even back us when we need you the most?! And we need to heal. We’re not healing.”
Jones’ words come on the heels of bipartisan demands to listen to survivors and release the entirety of the Epstein files, noteworthy defections from Trump’s “hoax” camp.
Staunch Trump ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, R-Ga., accused the Trump administration on Wednesday of “holding the truth,” while Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said Trump is “covering for some rich and powerful people that are friends of his.”
When asked by reporters on the Epstein scandal, Trump demurred, saying “nobody’s ever satisfied.”
“It is irrelevant to the success of the nation…Really, I think it’s enough,” Trump said.
