Epstein survivor Lisa Phillips talks to me about the scandal
Dean Obeidallah at The Dean's Report:
Donald Trump is again freaking out over the possibility the House will vote to compel the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files now that Democrat Adelita Grijalva won her special election to Congress on Tuesday. You see, with Grijalva’s win, there will be the requisite 218 people supporting a discharge petition that will mandate a vote in the House to release the Epstein files. That is why Trump has apparently directed his pet poodle Speaker Mike Johnson to delay swearing in Grijalva to next week or even mid-October despite winning nearly 70% of the vote. Keep in mind, that when Democrat James Walkinshaw won a special election on Sept. 9, Johnson swore him in the very next day. But now with the looming swearing in of Grijalva—who has vowed to sign the Epstein discharge petition—Trump is scared because we may finally see the complete files.
And Trump should be very afraid of what we will learn. Earlier this week I spoke to Epstein survivor Lisa Phillips—who made it crystal clear that Epstein was the mastermind of a massive sex scandal involving countless powerful men from around the globe. (You can watch my interview of Lisa at end of this article.) Phillips was one of the brave women who stood on Capitol Hill in early September to demand the release of the Epstein files. It was Phillips who made headlines with the comment that she was speaking to the other survivors about making their own list of the powerful men who engaged in sex with the women and children Epstein trafficked. Phillips also challenged the GOP controlled Congress that day with the line, “Congress must choose: will you continue to protect predators, or will you finally protect survivors?”
Despite what Trump and some in the media want you to believe, this case is not about Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell recruiting children and women simply to have sex with Epstein. Rather, the two were building a massive international sex ring to blackmail people in power. That is why Donald Trump and many of his allies including in the corporate media—are so desperate to move on from this story. Phillips—a former model--explained, “Jeffrey wasn’t doing this just for his own sexual gratification. He was building something out.” She then added this stunning line, that Epstein “told me to have things on people, so the young girls were there to serve a purpose, a grander, bigger purpose, darker purpose.” When I asked her point bank do you mean he had created an international blackmail scheme, she responded, “Well, Dean, I mean, you hit it on the nail there. I mean, that’s exactly what was going on.” Phillips flagged the real question that demands an answer: “How deep it goes, and who’s involved?” You would think the corporate media would be asking those questions—especially given that Trump’s own DOJ released a memo in July which “confirmed that Epstein harmed over one thousand victims.” Yes, more than one thousand people! As Phillips explained, Epstein “was an international human trafficker, and many around him knew.” She even shared in our interview that, “I had a girlfriend who was made to have sex with a prince.” She added something else that demands for more attention: Epstein had video cameras everywhere. Phillips stated that Epstein “videoed everything on his island, everything in his house,” all “so he has the proof.” That “proof” of course was for blackmail purposes. Phillips then poised the key question about all these video tapes: “I wonder where that is, Dean?!”
The Epstein cover-up continues to unfold.
