Lawrence: Trump Justice Department has Epstein survivors begging 'delete my name!'
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Delete my name. Please, I'm begging you to delete my name. Those are the words of a woman who was a |
| 0:12.0 | victim of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking and rape conspiracy when she was a teenager, |
| 0:18.2 | when she was legally underage in the state of Florida. |
| 0:22.7 | She is one of the survivors who has never come forward publicly. |
| 0:27.9 | Never. |
| 0:28.9 | We've seen dozens of survivors speaking publicly outside of the Capitol last year, urging |
| 0:34.1 | Congress to pass a law forcing the release of the Epstein files, a law that Congress passed and Donald Trump signed into law, |
| 0:40.4 | surely expecting that his Justice Department that he controls would violate that law as the Trump Justice Department has done. |
| 0:51.5 | The Trump Justice Department keeps finding new ways to violate the law. They violated the |
| 0:56.0 | deadline in the law by more than a month. And then they violated the requirement to deliver |
| 1:00.4 | all of the Epstein files to Congress, not just a portion. And they violated the law requiring them |
| 1:06.4 | to redact the names of the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's |
| 1:12.9 | co-conspirators, including the convicted co-conspirator Galane Maxwell. The Trump-controlled |
| 1:19.4 | Justice Department redacted the names of the three co-defendants of Jeffrey Epstein in a draft federal indictment that was dropped by |
| 1:34.1 | Alex Acosta, who then became, who was then the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, |
| 1:40.7 | and then later became Donald Trump's Secretary of Labor during the first |
| 1:45.0 | Trump administration. The indictment that Republican U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta decided not to pursue |
| 1:51.2 | his 56 pages long and describes the sex trafficking crimes of Jeffrey Epstein beginning in 2002. |
| 1:58.4 | That indictment was part of the Epstein files release that we got over |
| 2:03.6 | the weekend last Friday. The first page of that indictment has three redactions. And those |
| 2:11.6 | three redactions right here on the first page of this indictment. |
| 2:18.8 | Let me get it into the camera. |
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