Donald Trump accused of trying to silence Epstein victims with jet flyover

Donald Trump has been accused of trying to silence Jeffrey Epstein’s victims by ordering a military flyover as they spoke to demand the release of secret government files on the sex offender.

More than ten women who survived abuse at the hands of Prince Andrew’s paedophile pal gathered on the steps of the Capitol in Washington DC, yesterday to urge transparency. The victims were drowned out as they spoke as fighter jets thundered overhead. Moments after, the president dismissed their harrowing speeches, dismissing the Epstein case files as a “hoax”.

The flyover, which cost US taxpayers an estimated £250,000, was ordered by Trump to fly over the White House as he welcomed Poland’s new head of state, Karol Nowrocki. It was described as “spectacular” and “incredibly rare.” No other visiting leader has received such treatment since Trump took office.

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The timing was striking. The jets roared through the skies just as abuse survivor, Chauntae Davies, was being asked about Epstein’s “biggest brag.” After the F-35s finished one of their many sorties, she replied, “his friendship with Trump”. Davies and her fellow survivors were forced to pause as US Air Force F-35s performed a ‘missing man formation’ and other ceremonial manoeuvres in honour of a Polish pilot killed in a recent crash.

When silence returned, Davies resumed. She told reporters Epstein kept an “eight by ten″ photo of Trump on his desk and that “they were very close.”

“Jeffrey and Ghislaine (Maxwell) were always very boastful about their friends, their famous and powerful friends, and his biggest brag, forever, was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump,” Davies said.

Rather than addressing the victims’ demands, the US leader, once a close friend of Epstein, went on the attack. Standing alongside Nowrocki, he brushed off the growing pressure over the Epstein files as a “Democratic hoax that never ends.”

Asked directly about the push to release all documents linked to Epstein’s trafficking network, which he promised to do while campaigning for the White House, Trump replied: “Nobody’s ever satisfied. I could check, but from what I understand, thousands of pages of documents have been given.”

He added: “But it’s really a Democrat hoax, because they’re trying to get people to talk about something that’s totally irrelevant to the success that we’ve had as a nation since I’ve been President.”

The reaction from survivors and their families was furious. One Epstein victim, who was not in Washington DC, told the Mirror: “It looked like a stunt straight out of Trump’s playbook, to drown out the victims, steal the spotlight, and pretend the problem doesn’t exist. It was disgraceful. Those victims were trying to tell the truth about abuse, and Trump literally sent warplanes over their heads. It was like he wanted to silence them with noise and power. Shameful doesn’t even cover it.”

Virginia Giuffre’s relatives, still reeling from her suicide in April, were critical of Trump’s hoax comments. Before her death, she had accused Prince Andrew of sexually abusing her when she was 17, claims the Duke has always denied.

Her sister-in-law, Amanda Roberts, said: “Forty-five minutes ago, you heard from every survivor saying, ‘This isn’t a hoax, the American people know that this isn’t a hoax.’ So I think we’re all tired of the distractions, the switch-and-bait [sic]. I think we’re over that part, and there’s just this desire that there’s an ugly stain that maybe he wants to disappear and go away, but it’s not going to. It’s not going to go away.”

She added: “I think there’s a certain point, especially as the leader of our nation, to sit back, take a moment of reflection and understand that this is huge, this is relevant, this is real. We are talking about human lives; they were children, and they are asking for the justice that they deserve. They are asking that of their leader of their nation.”

Wednesday's protest came a day after the Republican-led House Oversight Committee released more than 30,000 Epstein-related documents. However, most of the files turned out to be material already in the public domain. Democrats immediately accused their rivals of staging a political stunt to blunt demands for full disclosure.