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Proud to be part of the 3% who’s fed up with the Epstein files bullsh!t. I’m not staying quiet. 😏

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My Take on the Epstein Files Mess
Facts matter. Not conspiracy theories or rumors.
By Lanney Tran

Let’s be honest.

What do people expect to happen if this so-called “client list” gets released? Do they truly believe the FBI agents will raid elite homes and drag billionaires into court simply because their name appears on a document? That is not how the justice system works in America. Names in a file don’t lead to convictions. Without hard evidence that proves criminal conduct beyond a reasonable doubt and meets the legal burden of proof, there will be no indictments, no convictions, and no justice. Just headlines, lawsuits, and chaos. And in that chaos, the real predators walk free.

Justice never came for Prince Andrew. His name was made public. He was accused in a civil lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre, who testified that Epstein trafficked her to him when she was 17, a minor in some jurisdictions. The allegations were serious. There was even a widely circulated photo of him with his arm around her waist, with Ghislaine Maxwell in the background. He denied everything. He gave one of the most disastrous interviews in modern history, claiming he didn’t sweat and didn’t remember her. His attorney called her a liar. The result? He settled. Paid millions. No trial. No admission of guilt. No prison. He simply faded from public life, keeping his royal title far longer than he deserved. That’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s reality. This proves that even if every name came out tomorrow, nothing would happen without evidence that meets the legal threshold for prosecution.

Eric Swalwell was linked to a Chinese spy, Fang Fang, who targeted U.S. officials as part of a foreign intelligence operation. Despite national security implications, he was never fully investigated, never lost his security clearance, and still sits on powerful committees with access to classified intelligence. Anyone else would be under surveillance or facing charges. But Swalwell enjoys media protection and political cover while the country pretends it never happened.

Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State during the 2012 Benghazi attack that killed four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador and Navy SEALs. She brushed off accountability with her infamous, “What difference at this point does it make?” She deleted over 30,000 emails while under federal investigation. If you or I had done that, we’d be in prison. Yet she walks free, signs book deals, gives speeches, and is treated like royalty by the media.

If you’re going to demand justice, start there. But don’t assume a list of names is going to bring down the powerful. It won’t. Not without real prosecution and admissible evidence. That is how justice works. Not fantasy raids. Not viral hashtags. Not satisfying social media curiosity. Not mob outrage. Even when names are public and accusations are made, that alone doesn’t bring justice. It takes full criminal investigation, tangible proof, and the will to challenge those with power. Without that, they walk.

This failure of accountability extends beyond individuals to global trafficking networks that mirror Epstein’s operations. It began with recruiters, often young women who had previously been exploited, tasked with identifying vulnerable girls between the ages of 13 and 17. Many came from unstable environments such as broken homes, foster care, or poverty. This recruitment was not confined to the United States. Victims were also targeted in the UK, France, Eastern Europe, Brazil, and other parts of South America. They were promised lucrative opportunities in modeling, acting, or cash for massages. Epstein’s luxury homes, private jets, and island retreats created a false sense of security. Initial encounters often began with massages and escalated to inappropriate contact, coercion, and rape. Victims were paid, threatened, isolated, and forced to recruit others. That’s how the machine ran: with grooming, manipulation, and money.

His network stretched across the globe: New York, Palm Beach, Paris, London, New Mexico, the Caribbean. These weren’t just playgrounds. They were surveillance sites to record, compromise, and control.

Other trafficking networks operate the same way:
- Latin America: Children are trafficked for labor and sex.
- Middle East: Displaced populations forced into domestic servitude.
- Eastern Europe: Migrants pushed into crime or prostitution.
- Southeast Asia: Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Cambodia as major source and transit points.
- Vietnam: Women and children are trafficked domestically and abroad.
- China: Southeast Asian women are trafficked into forced marriages.
- South Asia: Bonded labor.
- Philippines: Online child sexual exploitation is a growing industry.

These networks thrive on government corruption, weak enforcement, and apathy, just like Epstein’s did. The 2024 UNODC report shows a 25% rise in trafficking victims since 2019, spanning 162 nationalities in 128 countries. It’s a crisis driven by poverty, war, and collapsing borders.

Epstein’s crimes weren’t just trafficking. They were political blackmail, global “kompromat”. A tool to shift elections, sabotage alliances, and bury investigations. One video in the wrong hands is more powerful than cash. That’s what this is. Not just crime, but power, posing a national security threat.

Epstein is dead. Maxwell is in prison, yet the web of protection and silence persists. There are over 1,000 confirmed victims tied to Epstein’s network, but only about 150 have come forward. The rest remain silent by choice. And they deserve that choice. Respect them. Protect them. Releasing names without proof isn’t justice. It’s cruelty.

Many of Epstein’s victims were minors. Some were legal adults, coerced or paid. In some cases, parents knew and did nothing. That’s trafficking’s true horror: silence, complicity, and power. The mainstream media won’t touch it because it doesn’t fit a clean narrative.

Well-meaning people demanding transparency without understanding how criminal law or espionage work are unintentionally helping predators hide deeper. Their noise gives cover, risking re-traumatization for survivors like Giuffre, who are dragged back into the spotlight without protection. Justice didn’t happen for Prince Andrew - that’s a fact. Those pushing fantasy over strategy are protecting the powerful and hurting survivors.

Some keep demanding the “client list” like nothing’s been released. That’s false.

Flight logs? Released.
Contact books? Released.
Court records? Released.

President Trump and AG Pam Bondi declassified and made them public. In February 2025, Bondi confirmed the Epstein case files were on her desk alongside the JFK and MLK files. They contain sealed records, contacts, and victim statements - none of that can or should be dumped online, especially names of victims who chose to remain anonymous. That information will never be public, no matter who is in office, as the Crime Victims’ Rights Act legally and ethically protects it.

The “client list” people obsess over doesn’t exist as they imagine. And even if it did, names alone aren’t convictions. Evidence is.

With all due respect to @Gen Mike Flynn, along with @Steve Bannon, @Anna Paulina Luna, and various social media influencers like @Charlie Kirk and @Candace Owens, are they seriously expecting the FBI to show up saying, “Sir, you are under arrest because your name is on a f…ing rumored client list”?

Get real. They know damn well that’s not how the system works. Names without evidence do not lead to arrests. The burden of proof is not optional. Their demands for transparency, while rooted in understandable frustration, risk turning a serious issue into a media-driven political spectacle.

These public tantrums do nothing but hijack the real fight. If you don’t have evidence that meets the legal threshold, you have nothing. Are they being misled? Maybe. Are they feeding outrage culture for clicks? Also possible. But either way, it’s a distraction.

But we, as conservatives, are supposed to be the party of common sense, law and order. We are not the party of viral hysteria. We don’t throw fits when justice doesn’t look like our favorite social media narrative. We uphold due process. We demand real accountability. Not emotional gratification.

If we want to win the war for truth, we cannot behave like those we oppose. The Left thrives on emotion, theater, and mob pressure. We thrive on law, discipline, and results.

Megyn Kelly even went on her show recently and implied Virginia Giuffre was a liar when she defended a rumor about FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino’s clash with AG Pam Bondi. That is exactly the kind of reckless media behavior that protects predators and shames victims. Instead of exposing trafficking, the media attack the survivors.

Tom Homan has rescued over 10,000 trafficked children out of an estimated 300,000 still missing. These are human trafficking victims. Many were kidnapped, drugged, raped, and sold. Their trauma is real. Why isn’t this dominating headlines? Why aren’t we demanding justice for them with the same intensity? Is it because their pain doesn’t involve billionaires or royals? Because it doesn’t trend on social media? These children matter. Their lives are not less important just because they don’t fit the conspiracy narrative.

If we truly want justice, we must focus on what actually works: real investigations, real prosecutions, real protection for survivors.

Not speculation.
Not tantrums.
Not performance.
Not distraction.

President Trump is focused on what truly matters.

Securing our borders, protecting our children, restoring order, enforcing laws, fighting trafficking, and purging DEI rot from institutions.

He is doing the work we elected him to do - delivering what we voted for. If you care about victims, stop chasing rumors and start backing the policies and prosecutions that make a difference.

Justice is not about who yells the loudest. It is about who gets results. If you’re not helping, get the hell out of the way.

Lanney Tran, 2025

References:
1. BBC Newsnight (2019) - Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein
2. Axios (2020) - Exclusive: How a suspected Chinese spy gained access to California politics
3. The Hill (2023) - House Ethics concludes Swalwell probe into link to Chinese spy, taking no action
4. State Department Accountability Review Board (2012)
5. U.S. House of Representatives, Select Committee on Benghazi. (2016)
6. FBI Releases Documents in Hillary Clinton E-Mail Investigation
7. Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System
8. United States v. Jeffrey Epstein
9. Giuffre v. Maxwell
10. Giuffre v. Prince Andrew
11. US v. Ghislaine Maxwell
12. US v. Ghislaine Maxwell – Trial Testimony, 2021
13. Virginia Giuffre v. Ghislaine Maxwell, Deposition Transcripts
14. DOJ, SDNY Epstein Indictment (2019) - Jeffrey Epstein Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With Sex Trafficking Of Minors
15. UNODC, Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2024
16. US Department of State, 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report

PS. Trump’s 2024 campaign was built on economic reform, border security, and — not the Epstein files.

His pledge to declassify them was a minor footnote, completely overshadowed by his core policy agenda.

On June 2, 2024, he addressed the Epstein files during a Fox interview. Here’s exactly what he said:

Rachel Campos-Duffy (00:31:19–00:31:21):
“Would you declassify the Epstein files?”

Donald Trump (00:31:21–00:31:33):
“Yeah, I would. I guess I would. I think that, less so, because you don’t want to affect people’s lives if it’s phony stuff in there, because it’s a lot of phony stuff with that whole world. But I think I would.”

Rachel Campos-Duffy (00:31:33–00:31:37):
“Do you think that would help restore trust?”

Donald Trump (00:31:37–00:31:56):
“I don’t know about Epstein so much as I do the others. Certainly, about the way he died, it would be interesting to find out what happened there, because that was a weird situation, and the cameras didn’t happen to be working, etc., etc. But yeah, I’d go a long way toward that one. The other stuff, I would.”

He hasn’t gone back on his words. He released what could be released.
The files were never the campaign’s focus. Time to stop fixating and start fighting for real issues — like ending child trafficking that’s still happening today.

The full transcript of the interview is available to public in case anyone interested. 😏