Victim in Epstein case decries 'political warfare' in effort to release grand jury transcripts
Source: CNN Politics
Updated Aug 4, 2025, 5:13 PM ET
PUBLISHED Aug 4, 2025, 4:17 PM ET
Two victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse have filed letters to the court condemning the Justice Department’s request to unseal grand jury testimony and cited the lack of respect they feel has been showed toward them by President Donald Trump and his administration. Both of the victims remained anonymous in their writings sent on Monday, with one calling the latest handling of the so-called Epstein Files “political warfare.”
“Dear United States, I wish you would have handled and would handle the whole ‘Epstein Files’ with more respect towards and for the victims. I am not some pawn in your political warfare. What you have done and continue to do is eating at me day after day as you help to perpetuate this story indefinitely,” one of the victims wrote.
Another victim argued that priority has only been on protecting “wealthy men.” “(I) feel like the DOJ’s and FBI’s priority is protecting the “third-party”, the wealthy men by focusing on scrubbing their names off the files of which the victims, “know who they are,’” one of the victims wrote.
While neither letter outwardly requests federal Judge Richard Berman in New York to keep the transcripts under seal, both strongly urge him to take all necessary precautions in concealing victims’ identities.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/politics/epstein-victims-statements-grand-jury
They are fling everything they have to distract from Epstein. They are terrified.
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She's left the country, or maybe she's still here and living under a different name. Who knows? Not every victim was as courageous as Virginia Roberts Giuffre. And don't forget that even Virginia kept quiet and out of the media until AFTER she had fled the country to Australia. After she married and took up permanent residence halfway around the world, she finally felt confident in bringing charges against Epstein and Maxwell.
Most of the other victims didn't have that safety net. Many of them didn't want to testify until they were promised the total secrecy of the Grand Jury. If that promise of secrecy falls apart and their names are out in the media, who will protect them? How will prosecutors ever get other rape victims to testify for ANY REASON?
