Release the Epstein files.

Amy Wallace, the co-writer of Virginia Giuffre’s recently released memoir “Nobody’s Girl,” has said she knows the names of the men who raped and trafficked children with Jeffrey Epstein. She says the FBI and the DOJ also know the names of those men. The only ones kept in the dark are the American people. Yet the files remain sealed, and the truth sits buried under poor excuses about “ongoing investigations” and “legal process” that are obviously designed to protect only one person: Donald Trump. Was he also raping children? Was the Miss Teen USA Pageant he owned back then also part of Epstein’s network, feeding teenage girls to predators? Most recently we’ve been treated to the lies Patel and Bondi are telling about not having “Epstein’s list” at all, something both of them previously claimed existed. Did it vanish into thin air? Did they destroy it, after Bondi claimed in February that it was “sitting on my desk right now”? The Epstein case is about more than one man. It’s about a culture of privilege that believes laws are for the poor and justice is for the powerless. Every Trump administration official who remains quiet is an accomplice. Every Republican representative who hides behind “procedure” and cowers in fear of Trump joins the conspiracy. All those who raped and trafficked children with Jeffrey Epstein must face public exposure and legal punishment. They should not hold office, sit on boards, or enjoy the comforts of respectability. They should face justice. And those who know and remain silent must be held to account as well. We can’t have one standard for the rich and powerful and another for everyone else. A democracy that protects predators because they’re rich or politically powerful is no democracy at all. The FBI, the Department of Justice, Republicans in Congress, and every public servant with knowledge of these crimes must decide which side of history they stand on. If they choose secrecy, they stand with the abusers. If they choose truth, they stand with the victims and with the conscience of the nation. There is no middle ground. You’ve claimed to stand with the victims before. Where do you stand now?