Republican Congressmen were for releasing the Epstein files – until the White House told them, No. Don’t do that. The Republican men, seeing it as practical, quickly fell in line behind Trump. The women turned out to be a different story.

Two congressmen introduced a discharge petition to release the files.

Eight Epstein victims went to Washington, urged Congress to pass the petition. Three Republican women – Nancy Mace, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene – listened to their stories.

Walking out of a meeting Nancy Mace had tears in her eyes.

The way Marjorie Taylor Greene saw it the victims had lived with their shame for years but shame shouldn’t fall on them – it should fall on people who turned blind eyes to Epstein’s abuse.

What they heard from Jeffrey Epstein’s victims mattered more to three women than politics – all three signed the discharge petition. Put politics aside.

That’s a sign of hope.

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Telling stories, in his memoir Carter Wrenn follows The Trail of the Serpent twisting and turning through politics from Reagan to Trump. Order his book from Amazon.