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Epstein survivor who voted for Trump says she now fears ‘we’re not going to get justice’
(www.theguardian.com)
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I'll get downvotes for this, but this is one case where I can understand her position. She was trafficked, raped and traumatized as a kid, was likely fed drugs as a kid as well. She's lived with that trauma her entire life, spoken up and was dismissed, and she's still angry, frustrated, terrified and traumatized.
And no one does anything. For years, for decades, no one does anything.
And trump comes along and says he'll prosecute the people on the list. Maybe she thinks he's not on the list, maybe she knows he is but if he's not the one who raped her she doesn't cares, she just wants everyone else taken down.
No one else is promising to go after the Epstein list, but trump is. And she's hoping that if she can see some justice get done, that she'll finally be able to put some of her trauma behind her.
She's not racist, she's not a brainwashed Fox News addict, she doesn't want to 'stick it to the libs'. She is legitimately a one-issue voter. She just wants free of her pain, and she casts the one vote that's promising her that.
This is the one vote that I don't think is LAMF material, it's just a tragedy for this poor woman.
Except Trump definitely did not promise that if you actually listened to what he said and not the chopped up version that ran on Faux News.
Can anyone listen to unedited Trump? It's just straight up word salad.