Mitchell, the 91-year-old former Democratic Senate Majority Leader, retired from public life in 2011, while Richardson—who also served as governor of New Mexico—passed away in 2023.
Dershowitz was himself accused of misconduct in connection to Epstein. Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most well-known accusers who died by suicide in April, alleged in 2019 that Dershowitz was among the men she was forced to have sex with at Epstein’s direction, according to NBC News.
Dershowitz strongly denied the allegation and filed a defamation suit against Giuffre, the Western Journal reported. In 2022, she dropped the case, stating she “may have made a mistake.”
Dershowitz told Bream that “a woman named Sarah Ransome filed an affidavit. It’s probably in the record. It’s probably been sealed, in which she accused Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Richard Branson of having sex with young people. And she said she had videotapes of this, and then after an investigation, she admitted that she made up the whole story, and yet the affidavit still remains in the court records.”
The New Yorker reported in 2019 that “Ransome was another imperfect witness” against Epstein.
“In the fall of 2016, she had suggested to the New York Post that she had sex tapes of half a dozen prominent people, including Bill Clinton and [President] Donald Trump — but couldn’t provide the tapes when asked. (Ransome [said] that she had invented the tapes to draw attention to Epstein’s behavior, and to make him believe that she had ‘evidence that would come out if he harmed me’),” the outlet added.
Dershowitz told Bream, “So we have to distinguish true accusations from false accusations.”
For his part, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform last weekend he has instructed his Justice Department to pursue releaseable, relevant information on Epstein after his administration received blowback from the MAGA base following the release of a DOJ/FBI memo claiming there is no ‘client list’ or further incriminating evidence to release on Epstein.
“I have asked the Justice Department to release all Grand Jury testimony with respect to Jeffrey Epstein, subject only to Court Approval. With that being said, and even if the Court gave its full and unwavering approval, nothing will be good enough for the troublemakers and radical left lunatics making the request. It will always be more, more, more. MAGA!” he wrote.
