The Justice Department’s latest dump of Jeffrey Epstein-related records has once again exposed the outrageous mess left behind by a chronically politicized system, and conservative voices are rightly furious. Former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax’s audience the filings are “fake after fake” and urged Americans to look at the evidence rather than swallow headline-ready accusations.
What’s been released so far includes tens of thousands of pages, photographs, travel logs and internal memos — but also a number of confirmed forgeries and heavily redacted materials that make it nearly impossible for anyone named to clear their good names. The public has seen fake letters, a bogus passport and even a debunked video circulating among the trove, yet many crucial pages remain sealed or blacked out.
Dershowitz’s plea for full, unredacted transparency is not merely theatrical showmanship; it’s a defense of the Constitution’s confrontation principles and of basic fairness for Americans unfairly dragged into scandal by innuendo. He warned of a new “Epstein McCarthyism” where names are paraded on television while the context and credibility of accusers are hidden from the accused. Conservatives who care about due process should stand with that demand.
Make no mistake: the left-wing media and partisan actors see this as an opportunity to smear opponents with sensational leaks rather than seek truth, and that’s exactly why Congress moved to force disclosure with the Epstein Files Transparency Act signed into law on November 19, 2025. If transparency is the goal, it must be complete — not selective theater that ruins reputations without allowing the accused to defend themselves.
Yet even as Congress and the public push for clarity, judges and bureaucrats keep important pieces under seal, citing standard legal protections while the press treats redactions like a confession of guilt. That contradiction only fuels conservative suspicion that establishment institutions are protecting elites and managing narratives instead of delivering justice. Courts should be strict about victims’ privacy, but they must not enable a modern-day smear machine that weaponizes secrecy.
Americans who love country and rule of law should demand both compassion for real victims and ironclad procedural fairness for anyone named in these files — that means unredacted evidence when appropriate and accountability for anyone who traffics in fabrications. As Dershowitz implored on air, examine the proof, not the accusations; that simple standard would protect the innocent and expose the guilty without surrendering our rights to a mob-hungry press.

