Epstein survivors call out Trump’s justice department for ‘extreme redactions’ in latest file release – live

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s abuse released a new statement on Monday criticizing the Trump administration’s justice department for failing to release all of the documents related to the case by the 19 December deadline. The statement, posted in full on X by CBS reporter Scott MacFarlane , says the release was “a fraction of the files, and what we received was riddled with abnormal and extreme redactions with no explanation .” The survivors also accuse the justice department of leaving identities of some of the victims unredacted, “causing real and immediate harm.” It is alarming that the United States Department of Justice, the very agency tasked with upholding the law, has violated the law, both by withholding massive quantities of documents, and by failing to redact survivor identities. The statement also calls out the lack of ability to search within the released files, making it impossible for survivors to find pertinent information to their cases. There has been no communication with survivors or our representatives as to what was withheld from release, or why hundreds of thousand of documents have not been disclosed by the legal deadline, or how DOJ will ensure that no more victim names are wrongly disclosed. While clearer communication would not change the fact that a law was broken, its absence suggests an ongoing intent to keep survivors and the public in the dark as much as possible and as long as possible.

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