Trump and Melania reveal State of the Union friends together with Erika Kirk as Dems invite Epstein survivors | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump’s friends for his State of the Union deal with will embrace right-wing activist Erika Kirk and the household of a National Guard service member who was fatally shot in Washington, D.C. throughout the president’s troop deployment final 12 months.

He has additionally invited a seven-year-old woman who was injured in a automotive crash allegedly brought on by an undocumented truck driver in California.

Trump’s friends for his Tuesday deal with observe a wave of invites to the president’s critics from Democratic lawmakers, who’re bringing survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse and other people arrested by immigration officers.

Among these anticipated to be in attendance are Epstein accusers Maria Farmer, Haley Robson and the household of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who died by suicide final 12 months, amongst others.

Democratic lawmakers are additionally bringing immigrants who had been locked up in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities. A lady who was shot eight instances by federal officers in Chicago can be anticipated to attend.

First Lady Melania Trump is inviting Sierra Burns, who was a beneficiary of the Foster Youth to Independence program, and Everest Nevraumont, a 10-year-old scholar who attends a Texas faculty with a curriculum that features synthetic intelligence.

They are anticipated to sit down within the first girl’s visitor field.

Trump has invited Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk, the widow of influential right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot final 12 months.

He will name on Congress to “firmly reject political violence against our fellow citizens,” in accordance with the White House.

Trump additionally invited the dad and mom of 20-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, with the West Virginia Army National Guard who was killed within the nation’s capital final 12 months.

The man suspected of taking pictures two West Virginia National Guard members close to the White House the day earlier than Thanksgiving is an Afghan nationwide. The administration halted all selections relating to migrants looking for asylum within the wake of the taking pictures, although the suspect probably underwent in depth vetting as a CIA asset and once more as he sought asylum within the United States.

Dalilah Coleman, 7, has additionally been invited. She was critically injured after a business tractor-trailer crashed into the automotive she was driving in, in accordance with her household. ICE arrested the motive force final 12 months.

Trump additionally invited the U.S. males’s hockey group to his deal with throughout a name to the group after their victory within the Winter Olympics, although it’s unclear if the group will attend.

The girls’s hockey group declined Trump’s invitation a day after the president jokingly advised the boys’s group that he could be impeached if he didn’t additionally invite them.

Democrats invite ICE survivors

Trump will ship his annual State of the Union amid rising scrutiny and an avalanche of authorized threats to his agenda, which Americans overwhelmingly oppose, in accordance with public opinion polling.

His deal with to a joint session of Congress — simply days after the Supreme Court delivered a seismic blow to a bulk of his tariff agenda — is anticipated to spotlight his anti-immigration agenda and Homeland Security’s efforts to deport tens of hundreds of individuals from the nation.

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, whose state is on the epicenter of Trump’s surge of federal officers into Democratic-led states and cities, has invited a number of individuals detained by ICE in current weeks.

Aliya Rahman, who’s recognized with autism, was pulled out of her automotive on the best way to a physician’s appointment and detained at a federal detention middle the place she say she skilled medical neglect and violence by the hands of ICE brokers.

Omar has additionally invited Mary Granlund, the chair of the Columbia Heights School Board. The district has seen a number of of its college students detained by ICE and despatched to a Texas detention middle, together with five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, whose arrest fueled outrage over the administration’s rising follow of detaining households at a facility that has seen measles outbreaks and stories of different extreme medical emergencies.

Omar additionally invited Mubashir Hussen, 20-year-old U.S. citizen who was arrested in Minneapolis regardless of repeating “I’m a citizen” to officers. He was shackled inside an ICE detention middle and launched solely after he may present his passport. Hussen and different detainees are actually suing the administration to cease what they allege are suspicionless stops, warrantless arrests and racial profiling of Minnesotans.

Marimar Martinez, a Chicago girl who was shot eight instances by federal brokers in Chicago, is the visitor of Illinois Rep. Chuy Garcia.

“I look forward to attending the State of the Union and hope the country can look at what happened to me and other victims of DHS’s unlawful behavior as a basis to call their elected representatives and demand accountability,” she stated in a press release.

Epstein’s accusers will sit in attendance

Several girls who say they survived Epstein’s abuse may also attend the occasion after invites from Democratic lawmakers.

More than two dozen Democrats are skipping the State of the Union to attend “The People’s State of the Union” with advocacy teams. Epstein survivors and different friends are anticipated to attend Trump’s deal with of their place.

Rep. Ro Khanna has invited Haley Robson, whose “courageous fight is proof that this isn’t about politics, it’s about exposing America’s two-tiered system of justice and bringing accountability to the Epstein class involved in the horrific abuse of young girls,” the congressman stated in a press release.

Rep. Jamie Raskin has invited Sky and Amanda Roberts, the brother and sister-in-law of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who died by suicide final 12 months.

Oregon Rep. Maxine Dexter has invited Lisa Philips to attend the deal with in her place.

Philips is “one of the many brave women who survived Epstein’s abuse” whose “presence will send a clear message: Epstein survivors will not be silenced. The powerful will not be protected. Our government will be accountable to the people it serves,” Dexter stated in a press release.

Rep. Robert Garcia, the highest Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, which is main a congressional investigation into Epstein’s crimes and alleged connections to a wider community of highly effective pedophiles and abusers, is bringing Epstein survivor Annie Farmer.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who can be not attending the speech, stated she has invited Marijke Chartouni to attend.

“Thirty years after the FBI first ignored reports of Epstein’s crimes, Pam Bondi’s Justice Department continues to fiddle rather than hold perpetrators to account — even as other countries act decisively,” Chartouni stated in a press release from Jayapal’s workplace.

“This injustice cannot be buried, and we will continue to make our voices heard, at every opportunity, until there is truth and accountability for every survivor of Epstein and his ring,” she added.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico is bringing state Rep. Andrea Romero, who’s spearheading a state investigation into Epstein’s Zorro Ranch.