Trump DOJ accidentally exposed Epstein victims' identities in new botched release [View all]

Source: Raw Story

January 30, 2026 3:43PM ET


The Trump administration has botched the release of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files to accidentally expose private information about the victims — something that was clearly carved out of disclosure requirements under federal law, and that the administration itself has said it is working hard to avoid doing.

According to MS NOW legal analyst Lisa Rubin in a post on X Friday afternoon, her network's "initial review of documents just produced in response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act indicate that despite a promise (and the obligation) to protect victim-identifying information, the DOJ has revealed the names and other identifying details of known survivors of Jeffrey Epstein."

For example, she wrote, "In at least one case, MS NOW found a driver's license with an unredacted photo among the documents produced today. None of these documents were previously produced in public court filings."

This comes after the Trump administration emphasized in court filings that the reason they had not released all of the files yet, despite it being over a month since the legal deadline to release them all, was that they were exercising due diligence to prevent the leak of private victim-identifying information.

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