Breaking: Evidence that Trump's DOJ is Actively Intimidating Epstein Survivors
A government that truly cares about victims would shield the vulnerable and expose the powerful. This one did the opposite.
Last night, I reported that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche lied on NBC News on Sunday when he told Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker that the Trump administration was delaying the release of the Epstein files — and redacting the tranche it released on Friday — in order to protect the girls and women trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.
“The reason why we are still reviewing documents and still continuing our process is simply… to protect victims,” Blanche told Welker. “So the same individuals that are out there complaining about the lack of documents that were produced on Friday are the same individuals who apparently don’t want us to protect victims.”
That claim does not survive even minimal scrutiny.
Among the documents the Trump Justice Department redacted was a redacted email from a survivor to New York Post columnist Maureen Callahan describing an unnamed man who repeatedly had sex with another survivor at Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse while “flicking and sucking” her nipples.
Blanche either forgot — or chose to ignore — a crucial fact: the same email had already been released a year earlier by the Biden Department of Justice, without redactions, after a federal judge ordered its disclosure.
That earlier release makes clear what the Trump administration is now trying to obscure. The man described in the email is Donald Trump.
But this is not merely a sin of omission. Contrary to Blanche’s insistence that the redactions are about protecting victims, the administration is actively doing the opposite — retaliating against and intimidating survivors who implicated Trump. And it is doing so in plain sight, quietly enough that almost no one has noticed.