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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    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

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    It’s a GOOD THING Congress is doing EVERYTHING it can to PROTECT People like her! Give CHILDREN’S INFORMATION to the Men who Forced her to do This!

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    That fear is absolutely well founded in what we know about Donald Trump. Donald Trump is a bully and uses mafia methods. Any case where possible, any accuser against Trump should be anonymous to protect the victims against Trump.

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        Isn’t that just what they say when they mean he’ll hurt LGBTQIA+ people but want to pretend not to be bigots?

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          Not sure…might be getting confused with the UKs “protect our women”/Raise The Colours flag shagging crowd, can be very similar. They spend most of their time ranting about brown migrants attacking women and ignore the white rapists…

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            They also claim that in order to protect women’s rights you have to deny trans people any rights. This particular non-sequitur seems to be strongly pushed in the UK.

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      I think we should stop calling Trump a bully. A bully calls names and steals lunch boxes. Trump actively destroys the future, by taking away our ability to be free and our ability to know.