{"id":71376,"date":"2026-04-10T11:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/survivors-of-epsteins-abuse-accuse-melania-trump-of-shifting-burden-onto-victims\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:55:09","slug":"survivors-of-epsteins-abuse-accuse-melania-trump-of-shifting-burden-onto-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/survivors-of-epsteins-abuse-accuse-melania-trump-of-shifting-burden-onto-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivors of Epstein\u2019s abuse accuse Melania Trump of \u2018shifting burden\u2019 onto victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outrage from survivors follows first lady\u2019s statement calling on Congress to hold public hearings with victims of Epstein\u2019s abuse<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than a dozen survivors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s<\/a> abuse have accused Melania Trump of \u201cshifting the burden\u201d onto them after she called on Congress to hold public hearings with victims of Epstein\u2019s abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurvivors of Jeffrey Epstein have already shown extraordinary courage by coming forward, filing reports, and giving testimony,\u201d said a group of 13 people and the brother and sister of the late Virginia Giuffre, who was one of the most vocal Epstein accusers, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Rep_Stansbury\/status\/2042439530565750899\/photo\/1\">statement<\/a>. \u201cAsking more of them now is a deflection of responsibility not justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/10\/epstein-survivors-melania-trump-reaction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outrage from survivors follows first lady\u2019s statement calling on Congress to hold public hearings with victims of Epstein\u2019s abuse Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox More than a dozen survivors of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s abuse have accused Melania Trump of \u201cshifting the burden\u201d onto them after she &#8230; <a title=\"Survivors of Epstein\u2019s abuse accuse Melania Trump of \u2018shifting burden\u2019 onto victims\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/survivors-of-epsteins-abuse-accuse-melania-trump-of-shifting-burden-onto-victims\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Survivors of Epstein\u2019s abuse accuse Melania Trump of \u2018shifting burden\u2019 onto victims\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}