A Jeffrey Epstein survivor who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 has called out the president for suggesting that the sex trafficker’s victims are “lying,” urging him to imagine it was his own daughters who were abused.
Jena-Lisa Jones, who was 14 when she was abused, spoke to Lawrence O’Donnell on The Last Word on Wednesday evening. She described speaking out in front of the Capitol with other survivors as “intense,” and said she felt she was “putting my life on the line.”
Jones and other victims, along with family members, joined members of Congress on Capitol Hill earlier on Wednesday for a press conference to recount their harrowing experiences and demand the full release of the Epstein files.
Jones became tearful when O’Donnell said she and her fellow survivors were “believed”—althou