Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Slamming The Department Of Justice For Recklessly Exposing Epstein Victims As They Continue To Shield President Trump

Washington, D.C. - Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) today spoke on the Senate floor following the Department of Justice's latest release of Epstein files, condemning the Trump administration for their gross negligence in protecting victims' identities while going to extraordinary lengths to shield President Trump. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

The only real conclusion we can make about the latest release of the Epstein files is this: the DOJ cares more about protecting Donald Trump than it cares about protecting Epstein's victims.

These new releases expose the identities of nearly one hundred victims in over one thousand instances. This is not mere sloppiness, this is wanton negligence that puts the safety of these victims at risk.

It's one thing for the DOJ to miss a couple redactions here or there-and that's still bad-but to fail thousands of times to protect people's identities begs the question if this was intentional. And look, the DOJ's failure to protect the identities of the victims is bad enough-but what makes it even more heinous is how far the DOJ went to protect Donald Trump during these releases.

The DOJ took down pages and pages of documents that were full of vulgar accusations against the President-and when they got caught, they put the documents back up, but without redacting the information of the victims. If the DOJ cared half as much about protecting Epstein's victims as they care about shielding Donald Trump, then maybe the public would trust them more. But right now, there is zero trust that the DOJ is being on the level.

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