Jeffrey Epstein’s Lawyer Joins Party Keeping Epstein Files Hidden and Redacted
Alan Dershowitz helped negotiate Epstein's 2008 plea deal. He's joining the party now withholding the Epstein files.
Alan Dershowitz announced on Monday that he is leaving the Democratic Party after 67 years and registering as a Republican. The 87-year-old Harvard Law professor emeritus, who served on Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 defense team and helped negotiate the non-prosecution deal that kept Epstein out of federal court, said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the switch was driven by the Democratic Party’s supposed hostility to Israel.
The party he is joining is the one currently withholding and redacting the Epstein files. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed by President Trump on November 19, 2025, gave the Justice Department thirty days to release the full investigative record. That deadline was missed, and roughly 3.5 million pages have since been released, most heavily redacted, and an estimated 2.5 million pages remain unreleased. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has told Congress the Department is withholding attorney-client communications among other categories. Dershowitz was Epstein’s attorney, some of the withheld material is his, which may be a better explanation for his political party shift, especially as there is no evidence the Democrats are “anti-Israel” as he claims.
The reason Dershowitz gave for the switch does not line up with reality at all. The Senate vote he referenced, held on April 15, was not an arms embargo, it was a pair of resolutions introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders to block two specific sales to Israel: $295 million in military bulldozers and $151.8 million in 1,000-pound aerial bombs. Both failed, 40–59 and 36–63. Every Republican in the chamber voted to send the weapons. Neither party has introduced a general arms embargo. Both continue to fund Israel’s military at more than $3.3 billion a year through the State Department alone.
Beyond the votes in question, the idea of any “anti-Israel” party in the USA is an impossible one to allow to fester. Most outlets have repeated Dershowitz's assertion about the party he has just left, but the reality on the ground is that more than half of all U.S. senators take money from the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC, which continues to deliver millions in donations to Democratic lawmakers, not just Republicans. Senator Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democratic Party is one such recipient, taking over 6 million in donations from the Israeli lobbyists, and entirely dispelling the notion that the party he leads is against the genocidal state in some form.
There is absolutely no truth to the ideas presented by Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer, so we must question what his real reasons are, the truth in which quite possibly lie in redacted files sat on by Trump’s FBI.
How much did they offer him?