1. United States
2. Va.
3. Letter

If the President is a pedophile, don’t you want to know? If the person in the highest seat of power in our nation is a serial predator, isn’t it important to bring that truth into the light? If our Commander-in-Chief committed sexual abuse of minors for years, doesn’t that matter to you? You see, I know how you might have responded to these questions before January 20th, when we had a Democrat in the White House, because back then, your performative posturing never ceased. You were supposedly all about stopping the child groomers, punishing sexual criminals, and eradicating human traffickers. And with the continually delayed release of the Epstein files, I sense your fierce moral stance suddenly becoming more malleable and your hardline religious convictions coming up for debate. Are you against child groomers unless they have an R next to their names? Does sexual violence still sicken you if the perpetrator helps you build a theocracy? Are you for exposing human traffickers, unless they can supply you with Supreme Court seats? Because from where I’m standing, the rubber is meeting the road, and you’re trying to take an exit ramp. It seems like you don’t have the clarity of convictions you’ve always told yourself (and the rest of us) that you have. Look, I was hoping we could find common ground in a base level of humanity that doesn’t want our leaders to be rapists. I thought that maybe we could cut through America’s fierce tribal divide by agreeing that we should drag monsters who use their wealth to brutalize girls and young women into the light of accountability. If I were as devoted a Christian as you claim to be, I wouldn’t want to make the story of these crimes all go away so that I can go back to pretending I’m a follower of Jesus and morally policing the world, all while turning my head at the possibility that I voted for and still support a deviant monster. I don’t care if these documents implicate someone I once respected or even voted for, because I want every vile pervert and predator to be exposed. I want justice for every child and woman who suffered at the hands of the wealthy and powerful. And yeah, if the President is a pedophile, if he is a serial predator, if he has abused girls and women, I want to know because I want him to be accountable. And I want you to know, because I want you to be held accountable for trying to turn away from the truth, for attempting to push it all under the rug for fear it might expose your hypocrisy. Most of all, I want to see if your cultic devotion will remain, even if you find out he is the very kind of filth you claim to be sickened by. And maybe that’s why you don’t want these files released, because you know the answer to that question. Prove me wrong. Stand with me. Demand the Epstein files be released—or tell me again who you think you are.