The Trump administration just betrayed the victims of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking crimes, a legal expert said in a new report.
President Donald Trump recently released the transcripts of interviews Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche conducted with Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. The move was meant to placate the growing discontent within the MAGA base over the release of the Epstein files, but one expert suggests that it was really a betrayal of the victims.
"The games the administration is playing with re-releasing already public documents while withholding the Trump-Epstein files and other key information is another betrayal of survivors," former Amb. Norm Eisen, executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, told Axios.
For more than a month, the Trump administration has searched for a way to quell its base over the Epstein files. Trump promised to release the files during his presidential campaign, but backtracked once he was elected.
Trump's about-face on the files came after media reports indicated he was mentioned in multiple Epstein files.
Victims of Epstein's crimes have spoken out about the Trump administration's handling of the files, saying that it has increased their anguish.
"In a democracy, transparency isn't optional. It's the law, and it's the bare minimum the American people are owed," Eisen added.