Haley Robson, a survivor of Epstein, began her remarks by noting that while people see the survivors as adults, she emphasized they were fighting for themselves and other victims as the children who were left behind, showing a picture of herself as a child.
Robson thanked the lawmakers championing the effort, saying that to watch Republicans going against their party and risking their careers was “unbelievable to watch.”
Robson said that if Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who supported the vote to release the Justice Department’s Epstein case files, decided to read names of people connected to Epstein on the House floor, she would stand next to her.
Robson reacts during a news conference outside the Capitol today. Heather Diehl / Getty Images
Robson delivered a message to Trump, saying she was “skeptical” of his “agenda,” even though he flipped his stance on the House vote.
“I am traumatized, I am not stupid,” she said in her message to Trump. She said he had put them through “so much stress.”
NBC News has reached out to the White House for comment on the Epstein survivors’ criticisms of his previous opposition to releasing the files.