Two survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have filed emotional letters to a court in New York, lashing out at the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files. One of the survivors writes, “Dear United States, I wish you would have handled and would handle the whole 'Epstein Files' with more respect towards and for the victims. I am not some pawn in your political warfare. What you have done and continue to do is eating at me day after day as you help to perpetuate this story indefinitely.”

Another survivor writes, “[I] feel like the DOJ’s and FBI’s priority is protecting the 'third-party', the wealthy men by focusing on scrubbing their names off the files of which the victims, 'know who they are.'”

The FBI had reportedly redacted the names of Donald Trump and other prominent individuals from the agency’s files, citing privacy reasons. Bloomberg News reported that the FBI instructed its agents to flag any mention of Trump during a March review of hundreds of thousands of pages of records.