A woman known as Jane Doe 4 in the Jeffrey Epstein files is “staying off the grid” and lives in fear of retaliation from the Trump administration amid an escalating controversy over its handling of her case, according to a family member.

“Trauma is brutal. Chronic trauma destroys,” said the relative, who described the woman’s life as layers of abuse dating back to early childhood. “She’s coping as best she can.”

The woman had four interviews with FBI agents in 2019 that keep resurfacing in the Epstein sex-trafficking scandal. She made unproven allegations she was abused by the New York financier in the 1980s, then sexually assaulted by Donald Trump, when she was between 13 and 15 years old. The White House has called her allegations “completely baseless” and “backed by zero credible evidence”, a claim it said was supported by the fact that the Biden administration’s justice department knew about the allegations but “did nothing with them”.

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    5 days ago

    On the plus side for her, unless you’re a full on Nazi this administration is almost just as likely to come after any one of us for “perceived” bullshit they make up. Call the pedo president a pedo, get targeted, call the Nazi a Nazi and get 40 years in prison…there is probably not enough fat ice dumbfucks out there to get all of us but still, this timeline is so fucked