Survivors say they haven’t meet with DOJ despite testimony from Trump’s AG that ‘strains credulity’
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanchetestified to members of Congresslast week that he has met withsurvivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, along with “many” of their lawyers.
But more than a dozen survivors say they’ve never talked to him or his predecessor Pam Bondi, while other survivors said his sworn testimony “strains credulity.”
Democratic Rep. Daniel Goldman has now accused Blanche of shielding the dead sex offenders’sassociate Ghislaine Maxwellwhile ignoring survivors who have repeatedly called for a meeting with the Department of Justice toinvestigate Epstein’s alleged network of powerful abusers, underscoring the growing strain between Donald Trump’s administration and survivors who feel as if they’ve been cast aside.
Blanche is “taking good care of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is an absolutely treacherous human being, but will not meet with the other survivors who want to tell their story,” Goldman said in a video on social media Sunday.
“Why? Well, it’s obvious. It is a massive, massive coverup,” he said.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after she was found guilty of recruiting and grooming young women and girls for Epstein, who died by suicide in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on trafficking charges.
In October, the Supreme Court declined to review whether prosecutors fairly brought a case against her. With all her appeals exhausted, Maxwell filed a petition for her release from prison in December, claiming that “substantial new evidence has emerged” in her case.
Blanche interviewed Maxwell from prison in July 2025 as part of the Justice Department’s review of the so-called Epstein files — and she was then transferred to a minimum-security women’s prison in Texas.
She has refused to voluntarily testify to Congress without assurances that she can receive some form of clemency. President Donald Trump and some House Republicanshave not unequivocally rejected the idea of a presidential pardon, but Blanche said last week that he has “ruled out” recommending one.
Epstein’s former personal assistant Sarah Kellen testified in Congress last week in a closed-door deposition, during which she described years of abuse, according to Goldman.
