Trump ‘must have known’ about Epstein rape victims

Anonymous survivor breaks almost two decades of silence, having never previously spoken about the abuse she endured

- SHAHEENA UDDIN

An anonymous Epstein survivor spoke publicly for the first time in a TV interview, claiming that Donald Trump “must have known” about the paedophile financier’s victims.

The woman has broken almost two decades of silence, having never even spoken to her friends or family about the abuse she endured when she was just 16 years old.

She spoke exclusively to Channel 5 News for a programme that aired on Wednesday evening, alongside an interview with Marina Lacerda - a key witness in the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein.

The survivor said of the US president: “He had to have known something. He had to have had an idea. You know, he always boasted about their friendship, but I never knew how close or how involved they were.”

She also claimed that “he had pictures of them at his house together”, which she said she had seen. “They were friends... I don’t know how he couldn’t have [known],” she added.

Mr Trump has vehemently denied knowing Epstein’s victims and has previously dismissed reports about the pair’s friendship as a “Democratic hoax”.

The anonymous survivor has since responded by stating, “I’m not a hoax. I wish it was, but it’s not. And it did, it absolutely did happen. As much as I want to pretend it didn’t happen, it did, and I have to live with it for the rest of my life.”