Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Friday that the Department of Justice should release all remaining Jeffrey Epstein files without redactions.
The DOJ must release the files by 11:59 p.m. Friday to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law on Nov. 19. Dershowitz said on “The Record with Greta Van Susteren” that the DOJ should release all the files. He also called for no redactions.
“If you’re somebody who’s accused somebody, you no longer have the right to privacy. Under our Constitution, anybody who’s accused has the right to confront witnesses. And we can’t assume that everybody who accuses is a victim,” Dershowitz told host Greta Van Susteren. “We know already there’s a woman named Sarah Ransome. She accused Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Richard Branson, Donald Trump, said she had videotapes, sex tapes of them having sex with young people.”
Dershowitz said selective releases that list accused individuals while omitting information about demonstrably false accusers would distort the record and unfairly damage reputations.
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“She admitted she made the whole thing up. Imagine if they release the names of the people accused and they withhold the information about Sarah Ransome that she is a proved perjurer. That’s what I’m afraid of. I’m a civil libertarian. I care about real victims. False victims should be prosecuted. People who made up stories should be prosecuted,” Dershowitz said.
Sarah Ransome accused several high-profile figures — including Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Richard Branson, and Trump — of participating in sex acts involving minors and claimed Epstein possessed videotapes documenting the encounters. She later recanted those allegations, admitting she fabricated the existence of the tapes.
The files drew national attention after the DOJ and the FBI said in July that Epstein died by suicide in his jail cell and never kept a client list. The memo abruptly closed the investigation after Attorney General Pam Bondi said she had a client list on her desk for review.
Trump initially opposed releasing the files but later reversed course, saying he had nothing to hide. Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former business partner serving a 20-year prison sentence, told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche that she never witnessed Trump engage in inappropriate conduct during his association with Epstein.
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