Speculation has been building about whether President Donald Trump's administration has broken the law when it comes to releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files, and one legal analyst on Sunday flagged key files that have continued to be withheld from the public.
Last week, the Trump administration released a new tranche of documents related to the FBI's investigation into Epstein, a disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal. The latest batch contains several emails between Trump and Epstein, as well as multiple photographs of Epstein with celebrities and politicians. However, the administration failed to release the FBI's 302 reports, which are filed whenever an agent interviews someone in a case.
Kristy Greenberg, MS NOW legal analyst, discussed the administration's decision to withhold these files on Sunday's broadcast of "Alex Witt Reports."
"The act is very clear that among the materials that should be produced are the accounts of the survivors," she said. "That is thething we have not seen yet inany of the materials that havebeen released."
Greenberg argued that withholding the files is either "incompetence at best" or an "intentional choice" by the administration.
"We have not seenany 302 reports for these accusers," she said. "And that isexactly the kind of materialthat the act contemplates theAmerican people should see withredactions to protect thevictim's identity."
Trump has routinely tried to obfuscate the release of the Epstein files since Congress overwhelmingly passed the discharge petition to force the administration's hand. Many of the files were heavily redacted, and almost none mentioned any perpetrators other than Epstein. That has led some to speculate whether Trump is trying to protect people in the files at the expense of victims.
"Their stories needto be told, and they are notsupposed to be silenced anymore," Greenberg said. "And unfortunately, with thisdrip, drip, drip, and continuingto hold back that reallyimportant material. Ican imagine that victims arereally frustrated right now,and they have every right to be."
