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Alan Dershowitz told viewers on Newsmax’s Wake Up America that there never was an Epstein “client list” cooked up by Jeffrey Epstein himself, and he dismissed the conspiracy-theory notion of a neat, smoking-gun roster of powerful people. Dershowitz — a Harvard law professor emeritus and one of Epstein’s former lawyers — argued the records that do exist were created by investigators and then redacted by judges, not by Epstein making a dossier of clients.
He explained plainly that judges, not the DOJ, have already redacted names in court filings and that, from context, a lawyer like him can often infer identities even when names are blacked out. Dershowitz even told Newsmax he doesn’t expect the redacted pages to reveal “current prominent people” or any sudden political earthquake — a sobering reality check for those craving lurid headlines.
Dershowitz also raised the real danger most Americans understand by now: reputations destroyed on the basis of anonymous or unreliable allegations, then amplified forever by cable news and social platforms. He pressed that if files are released, the public deserves the ability to weigh accusations alongside information about accusers so ordinary citizens aren’t forced to adjudicate one-sided, cherry-picked narratives.
All of this comes as Washington scrambles over what should be public: President Trump signed bipartisan legislation on November 19, 2025 ordering the release of unclassified Epstein-related documents, but reporting shows the law contains broad exceptions and gives the Justice Department wiggle room to withhold material. That’s the sort of paper tiger that lets bureaucrats posture about “privacy” and “ongoing investigations” while keeping the real, inconvenient records locked away.
Conservatives should welcome genuine transparency, but we must also resist the left’s reflex to weaponize every disclosure into a political lynching. Democrats and the legacy media have shown they’ll use unverified innuendo as a cudgel against enemies, and Republicans shouldn’t hand them an automatic victory by demanding a public feeding frenzy without rules to protect fairness. The American people deserve both truth and due process — not a modern McCarthy-style show trial driven by cable ratings.
Alan Dershowitz has warned for years about a new McCarthyism that eats at civil liberties, and his cautions here are worth heeding: transparency without context becomes persecution, and persecution is exactly what the left and the media crave when they smell political blood. Hardworking Americans should demand the release of files in a way that holds the guilty accountable, protects genuine victims, and spares the innocent from ruinous, unproven accusations — justice, not spectacle.
