The ghost in Jeffrey Epstein’s machine is speaking again. The White House is already spinning this, naming the victim and calling it a smear. Democrats have received the 218 votes, and if this goes to Trump's desk, he could very well veto this demand for the files. Their frantic damage control is exactly why we must drag another name from the shadows: Katie Johnson.

A decade before these emails, a woman using that name—filing as Jane Doe—accused Trump and Epstein of raping her in 1994. She was thirteen years old. Her lawsuit was a hand grenade rolled into a presidential election. And then, it vanished.

In her declaration, Case 1:16-cv-07673, Document 1-3, Filed 09/30/16 she states the following: extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/politico.com/f

The parties were held at a New York City residence that was being used by Defendant Jeffrey Epstein. Each of the parties had other minor females and a number of guests of Mr. Epstein, including Defendant Donald Trump at four of the parties I attended. I understood that both Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein knew that I was 13 years old.

Defendant Trump had sexual contact with me at four different parties in the summer of 1994. On the fourth and final sexual encounter with Defendant Trump, Defendant Trump tied me to a bed, exposed himself to me, and then proceeded to forcibly rape me. During the course of this savage sexual attack, I loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to stop but he did not. Defendant Trump responded to my pleas by violently striking me in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted.

Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened me that, were I ever to reveal any of the details of Defendant Trump's sexual and physical abuse of me, my family and I would be physically harmed if not killed.

Both Defendants had let me know that each was a very wealthy, powerful man and indicated that they had the power, ability and means to carry out their threats. Indeed, Defendant Trump stated that I shouldn't ever say anything if I didn't want to disappear like Maria, a 12-year-old female that was forced to be involved in the third incident with Defendant Trump and that I had not seen since that third incident, and that he was capable of having my whole family killed.

The duress imposed on me by Defendants not to ever reveal any of the details of the sexual and physical abuse caused to me by Defendants has not terminated and the fear it has instilled in me has not subsided. Unfortunately, making matters worse for me, I was subjected to daily painful reminders of the horrific acts of Defendant Trump via mass media coverage of him starting last summer that, over a short period of time, became continuous and unavoidable.

Her attorney said death threats silenced her. The media, wary of the dubious characters promoting her story, looked away. Katie Johnson became a footnote, an inconvenient ghost.

But these new emails change the landscape. They don’t prove her case, but they shatter the wall of denial. Epstein himself is on the record: Trump knew. He was in the house. He spent hours there.

So we are left with a brutal, unavoidable question: if he knew, then who were the girls?

Katie Johnson’s story was buried by fear and disinformation. We cannot let that happen again. This isn’t about partisan politics. It’s about pulling a victim’s name from the ashes of a suppressed lawsuit and demanding the world finally see her.

Full transparency. All the documents. Now. It’s the only way the ghosts will ever rest.

In an interview with “Katie Johnson,” she describes in detail what Donald Trump violently did to her:

I believe her.