1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

My wife and I were shocked by this Republican administration’s statement, referring to the Jeffrey Epstein child sex-trafficking files, that “things were different at Mar a Lago in the 1990s.” What things? And how, exactly, were they different, and why? Is the administration saying children weren’t sexually assaulted in the 90s? Or that child-sex abuse was encouraged and those assaults were ignored? Is the Republican party’s official stance that raping children was acceptable 30 years ago? How horrific are the details in the Epstein files to make that its defense? Why is this administration so desperate to distract from those files? Tylenol doesn’t harm children. Pedophiles do. At Mar a Largo. The Epstein files, unredacted and in their entirety, must be released for sake of justice, accountability, and transparency.