Epstein survivor Jena-Lisa Jones told reporters Tuesday she remained confident President Trump would soon stop making her case political, possibly right after he finishes his investigation into Democrats who knew Jeffrey Epstein.
Jones, who voted for Trump specifically to prevent the politicization of her trauma, said she was certain her approach of publicly begging him to "please stop making this political" while continuing to support him would yield results any day now.
"I just need to keep asking him," said Jones, speaking hours before the House voted 427-1 to release Epstein files that Trump had spent months blocking. "Eventually he'll realize that when I voted for him and asked him to show some class, I was hoping he'd listen to one of those things."
The survivor acknowledged she had initially felt concerned when Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate only Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, and Reid Hoffman while calling the entire matter "the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans," but noted this was likely just an unfortunate miscommunication that would clear up with time and continued loyalty.
"The key is patience," Jones explained while watching Trump post on Truth Social that the investigation was "another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats." "You can't expect someone to immediately stop politicizing your sexual abuse just because you explicitly asked them to. These things require a long-term commitment to the person ignoring you."
Jones said she understood Trump may simply not have seen the newly released emails showing Epstein telling Ghislaine Maxwell that an alleged victim had spent hours at Trump's house with him, or the correspondence where Epstein wrote Trump "of course knew about the girls" being recruited from Mar-a-Lago.
"Once he's aware of my concerns, I'm sure he'll change course," Jones said, dismissing suggestions that nine months of Trump doing exactly what she asked him not to do might indicate her strategy wasn't working. "Giving up now would mean all that time watching him weaponize survivor trauma for partisan gain was for nothing."
When asked whether she had considered that voting for and publicly supporting someone might not be the most effective way to get them to stop doing something, Jones firmly rejected the premise, noting she had already invested significant emotional energy into believing otherwise.
