Famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz said Thursday that he “knows for a fact” that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein had a client list and that it is being “suppressed to protect individuals.”
Over the holiday weekend, the Justice Department and FBI released a memo concluding they had no evidence to suggest Epstein had kept a client list and had blackmailed the powerful names on it. The DOJ report also ruled out any foul play in Epstein’s suspicious prison cell death in August 2019, insisting he died by suicide.
Now, some of President Trump’s most prominent supporters are expressing frustration that he appears to be ready to move on from the Epstein investigation, despite so many questions remaining unanswered.
During an appearance on GOP strategist Sean Spicer’s podcast, Dershowitz, who was a member of Epstein’s defense team, claimed that when Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre sued him, he was given access to Epstein’s entire client list.
Giuffre had accused the lawyer of abusing underage girls, but later retracted her claims, admitting she may have mistook him for someone else.
“From the day I was accused, I said I wanted every document out because I knew every document would prove I was innocent,” Dersh told Spicer.
“Let me tell you, I know for a fact documents are being suppressed and being suppressed to protect individuals,” Dershowitz said. “I know the names of the individuals, I know why they’re being suppressed, I know who’s suppressing him,” he continued. “But I’m bound by confidentiality from a judge and cases and I can’t disclose what I know.”
Raising his hand, Dersh added “hand to God, I know the names! I know the names of people whose files are being suppressed in order to protect them—and that’s wrong.”
Spicer asked the attorney if the names on the list were politicians and/or business leaders.
Derhowitz replied that “they are everything,” but suggested one particular name may have been falsely accused.
“We know there have been many false accusers who have accused innocent people for money and those records are being deliberately, willfully suppressed,” Dersh explained, adding that if an accusation is allowed out, evidence that “diminishes the credibility of the accuser” should also be allowed to air.
“We want total transparency on this. Every single document, no redactions,” Dersh said. “I was falsely accused and I was able to prove it through documents and I want other people to be able to disprove false accusations through documents. But these documents are being withheld,” he lamented.
Dershowitz, an ally and frequent defender of President Trump, was a member of Trump’s defense team in his first impeachment trial in 2020.
He made many of the same claims during an appearance on the Megyn Kelly Show in May, telling Kelly that some of the files would prove to be detrimental to both the accusers and the accused.
During a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Trump snapped at a reporter who asked about the DOJ’s controversial Epstein report, making it clear that he didn’t want to talk about it.
“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy’s been talked about for years,” Trump fumed. “You’re asking — we have Texas. We have this. We have all of the things. And are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable.”
“I mean, I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Jeffrey Epstein,” Trump continued. “At a time like this, where we’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration. But you go ahead.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi attempted to explain the discrepancy between what she told Fox News in February about Epstein’s client list and what came out in the DOJ’s report.
“I was asked a question about the client list, and my response was, ‘it’s sitting on my desk to be reviewed,’ meaning the file along with the JFK, MLK files as well,” Bondi explained. “That’s what I meant by that. Also, to the tens of thousands of video, they turned out to be child porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein,” she continued, saying no such videos would be released or “see the light of day.”
The AG also addressed the video released by the DOJ showing that no one had entered the area of the Manhattan prison where Epstein was being held the night he died. Notably, one one minute is missing in the video.
“And the minute missing from the video, we released the video showing definitively that the video was not conclusive, but the evidence prior to it was – showing he committed suicide,” she said. “And what was on that, there was a minute that was off the counter and what we learn from Bureau of Prisons was every… every, night, they redo that video. It’s all from like 1999, so every night the video is reset and every night should have the same minute missing. So we’re looking for that video, to release that as well, showing that a minute is missing every night.”
“And that’s it on Epstein,” she said.
Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and Steve Bannon are among those who are accusing the administration of a cover-up.
During Trump and Musk’s very public feud over the “Big Beautiful Bill” last month, the former DOGE chief stated flatly that the president is on the list.
“@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public,” the billionaire said in a now deleted post. “Have a nice day, DJT!”
In an ominous follow-up, Musk urged X users to “mark this post for the future. The truth is coming out.”
Musk later posted on X that he may have gone “too far.”
However, he has made many references to the Epstein client list since.
“What’s the time? Oh look, it’s no-one-has-been-arrested-o’clock again,” Musk wrote in a post Monday sharing meme of “the official Jeffrey Epstein pedophile arrest counter.”
“They arrested (and killed) Peanut, but have not even tried to file charges against anyone on the Epstein client list,” Musk posted on X Tuesday, referring to the popular celebrity squirrel who was euthanized by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in 2024. The billionaire was reacting to a meme that said “more squirrels and raccoons have been arrested than anyone on Epstein’s client list.”
“How can people be expected to have faith in Trump if he won’t release the Epstein files?” Musk posted on X later Tuesday.
Trump famously banned Epstein from his exclusive Mar-a-Lago Club in the 1990s after the financier hit on the teenage daughter of another member. And he was reportedly eager to help attorneys as they built a case against Epstein.
In 2018, Bradley Edwards, an attorney who represented a number of Epstein accusers, was asked about Trump during an interview with Derrick Broze of The Conscious Resistance Network.
“The only thing I can say about President Trump is that he is the only person who in 2009, when I served a lot of subpoenas on a lot of people, or at least gave notice to some pretty connected people that I wanted to talk to them, he is the only person who picked up the phone and said ‘lets just talk, I’ll give you as much time as you want, I’ll tell you what you need to know,'” Edwards said.
“Was very helpful in the information he gave and gave no indication whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever but had good information that checked out and that helped us and that we didn’t have to take a deposition of him,” the lawyer added.
In his 2020 book, Relentless Pursuit: My Fight For The Victims Of Jeffrey Epstein, Edwards claimed to have spoken to the president twice about his relationship with Epstein and Trump insisted both times it was primarily business related.