Epstein victims attack Trump admin in court: 'I am not some pawn'
Two victims of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein attacked President Donald Trump's administration in letters to the court where grand jury testimony in the case remains sealed, according to CNN.
The victims, who remained anonymous, both filed letters with the court Monday, "condemning the Justice Department’s request to unseal grand jury testimony" and citing a lack of respect toward them by Trump and the DOJ.
“Dear United States, I wish you would have handled and would handle the whole ‘Epstein Files’ with more respect towards and for the victims," one woman wrote. "I am not some pawn in your political warfare. What you have done and continue to do is eating at me day after day as you help to perpetuate this story indefinitely."
The other victim accused the administration of only caring about the “wealthy men” involved in the case.
“(I) feel like the DOJ’s and FBI’s priority is protecting the 'third-party', the wealthy men by focusing on scrubbing their names off the files of which the victims, 'know who they are,’'” she wrote.
One letter continued, “I appreciate your time reading my short thoughts and feeling and my anxiety and frustration is NOT aimed at you, obviously. It is aimed at the very government here, the ones asking to release these transcripts, exhibits, etc., of which the victims are not privy to while they have concluded that there is nothing more to see on the files they hold. Yet no one has seen them, but them," adding, "I am beside myself.”
Neither letter openly requested that federal Judge Richard Berman keep the transcripts sealed, CNN reported. However, both "strongly" urged him "to take all necessary precautions in concealing victims’ identities," the report said.
Donald Trump was informed in May that his name appeared in the files the DOJ has on the disgraced Epstein, who committed suicide in his Manhattan jail cell in 2019.