What was Donald Trump thinking when he responded so truculently to a reporter’s question about yesterday’s poignant, powerful and non-political Epstein survivor press conference and called it a “Democrat hoax”?

It’s baffling.

And not just because nothing about yesterday’s proceedings was remotely partisan or political. In fact, I’d posit that it’s hard to think of a more uplifting display of unity on the Capitol steps, even if the impetus behind it stemmed from unfathomable abuse and suffering.

But what’s a far bigger head-scratcher in my mind is that Trump has a personal history – in a good way, as far as I know – with the first Epstein survivor to speak: Anouska De Georgiou.

De Georgiou, 48, is the dazzling, articulate British-born blonde who runs the Kintsugi Foundation, a transitional residential facility in Los Angeles.

Yesterday, she described not only how she suffered abuse from Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell for over a decade but how she was then followed, stalked and threatened – even with death – if she ever talked about what happened. Giving birth to her daughter, she said, was what ultimately gave her the courage to turn around and fight.

Yesterday marked the first time that De Georgiou has said publicly that she has “testified’. I’ve been given permission to explain that she was one of the four key witnesses in Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal trial in which she testified under the pseudonym, Kate. She alluded to this yesterday, because she has very good reason, given recent events:

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