Well done Tina. Excerpt: After years of being depicted as degraded waifs, discarded runaways, or terrified Jane Does, one after another, they came to the mic to show they were no longer those powerless fourteen-year-old girls caught in a sick degenerate’s big bad world. Energized by each other and by the insuppressable MAGA clamor to free up the files, the women were credible, vivid, tough, and determined. “I'm no longer weak. I am no longer powerless, and I'm no longer alone,” said the dazzling blonde Anouska de Georgiou, who was sucked into Epstein’s web as a teen model. “President Trump, you have so much influence and power in this situation. Please use that influence and power to help us, because we need it now, and this country needs it now.”
[Can't get the photo in. It's worth 3000 words. Shucks.] The Capitol Hill press conference by Epstein survivors
Cut to Trump, not the champion they had expected from his campaign days, but a sulphurous sack of curdled testosterone, blowing off their calls for justice and transparency. It would have been easy—and smart—for him to appease MAGA with some words of empathy for the irreparably harmed women who had the courage to speak out. But, seated against a background of the Oval’s new imperial gilt decor (musician Jack White recently likened it on social media to “a gaudy professional wrestler’s dressing room”),
Excellent. See again - 5 Ways Narcissists Project and Attack You [...]3. Preemptive strike
Whenever a narcissistic person feels threatened, they will call you the things that they themselves are as or are afraid that others see them as. And then they will try to stalk you, slander you, or discredit you. They will try to sabotage and destroy you. They will start a smear campaign and attempt character assassination. In their mind, frighteningly, you have become their mortal enemy.
They also have no problem doing all of it preemptively and calling it defense.
So if you privately call them out, set healthier boundaries, or end the relationship, they may be afraid that you can see their flaws, or that you will tell others what kind of person they are. Whether you do that or not is not important to them. Because in their mind the mere possibility of it is a good enough excuse to label you as an enemy. And because a narcissistic type of person has little or no empathy, they may imagine that you will behave as they would in these situations. If they would lie, or more likely are already lying, they will accuse you of lying.
And so they will do all these things just because they think you are somehow trying to or might hurt them. They also will accuse you of the very things they themselves are doing.