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Epstein Victims Reach Deal With Government Over Privacy Concerns

Did the Justice Department recklessly expose victims, deliver transparency to survivors that demanded or is it all a ruse to protect the wealthy and powerful?

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Epstein Victims Reach Deal With Government Over Privacy Concerns

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Above: The DOJ Epstein Library page on the DOJ website on Feb. 4, 2026. Image credit: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto/Getty Images

The Spin

Anti-Trump narrative

The Epstein files release has become a reckless disaster that exposes innocent victims while protecting the powerful. Congress forced an impossible 30-day deadline that resulted in 43 victims' names, addresses and dozens of unredacted horrifying images being posted online, retraumatizing survivors who never consented to public exposure. This abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure and will absolutely make future victims afraid to come forward, all for cheap political posturing disguised as transparency.

Amber Woods @ Amber Speaks Up on X The Wall Street Journal

Pro-Trump narrative

The DOJ successfully released millions of Epstein files with clear protocols protecting victims while ensuring no notable individuals or politicians were redacted from public view. Over 500 attorneys worked to err on the side of transparency, redacting with almost perfect success only victims and their families, while exposing the powerful. The release includes everything responsive to the Act, delivering the accountability and full transparency that survivors and the public demanded after years of incomplete and heavily redacted files.

Daily Wire Trump Department of Justice

Cynical narrative

Violating victim privacy is horrendous, but it's only the latest example of the government showing its complete disregard for the truth and justice. If the DOJ were to expose the sexual predators found in these files, it would also have to expose how Epstein used these abusers to further his agenda of blackmail. Epstein was a perverted tool in the toolbox of U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies, which means if the DOJ pursues justice for sexual abuse victims, it'll have to go after the very governments it reports to.

Nolan Higdon's Gaslight Gazette on Substack