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Alan Dershowitz pulled no punches on Newsmax’s The Record with Greta Van Susteren, calling the current handling of the Jeffrey Epstein materials “a new Epstein McCarthyism” and warning that naming people without giving them the evidence to defend themselves is dangerous to liberty. His language should make every freedom-loving American uneasy: accusations wielded like political cudgels, not facts, are a recipe for ruined lives and mob justice.
Dershowitz insisted the only honest path forward is total transparency — release the files with no redactions so anyone named can confront their accusers and the public can see the full record. That demand echoes the bipartisan push for openness embodied in the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which put pressure on the Justice Department to turn over what is legally releasable.
He spoke from experience, recounting how being allowed to see who had accused him years ago enabled him to disprove the claims and avoid a miscarriage of justice. That personal testimony underlines the conservative principle that due process must be real and available to everyone, not a luxury the powerful can ignore when it suits a political narrative.
Dershowitz also ripped into the anti-Trump media’s handling of Epstein, saying they’ve treated the convicted abuser as a convenient “darling” for political hits while elevating hearsay and leaks over verified facts. This selective outrage and hunger for headlines is the exact problem conservatives have warned about: the news industrial complex amplifying allegations when it advances a partisan storyline.
Importantly, Dershowitz reminded viewers that courts — not the DOJ or partisan actors — control what sealed materials get unsealed, and he said he’s seen lists of names that, by his reckoning, don’t include sitting officeholders, making much of the hysteria a political nothing-burger. If judges are performing their duty properly, then applications to unseal should be made in court, not shouted about on cable news the night before an election.
Patriotic conservatives should be the loudest defenders of both victims and the accused, demanding that lawmakers and judges end the cloak-and-dagger secrecy and stop allowing the left’s weaponized allegations to become permanent stains on reputations. The real justice for victims is a system that exposes truth, punishes the guilty, and protects the innocent — not a media-driven inquisition that tears down people on the basis of innuendo.
Americans who cherish the rule of law should call for the full, unredacted release of whatever the courts and the law permit, and they should insist that any newsroom or committee that prizes political scoring over due process be held to account. Dershowitz’s warning about modern-day McCarthyism is not partisan theatrics; it’s a blunt reminder that liberty dies when we substitute anonymous accusations for evidence, and every patriotic citizen should stand up for transparency and fairness.
