{"id":639928,"date":"2026-05-13T04:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639928\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:52:08","slug":"west-virginia-and-nebraska-hold-primaries-trump-en-route-to-china-for-xi-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/639928\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia and Nebraska hold primaries; Trump en route to China for Xi meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"h3\">A field hearing conducted by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee in Palm Beach, Florida, has come to a close after several Epstein survivors described how they&#8217;ve been retraumatized by the Justice Department&#8217;s handling of investigative files related to the case. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"h6\">One, Dani Bensky, said during the three-hour hearing that the department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/pam-bondi-subpoenaed-testify-epstein-files-house-oversight-committee-rcna261779\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">released information <\/a>it should not have about her and other survivors under the terms of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, while withholding information about alleged wrongdoers that she said should have been released.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"h9\">&#8220;I am just one of the hundreds of survivors exposed like this,&#8221; Bensky said, and while she&#8217;d previously gone public with her identity, &#8220;these documents hold disturbing and yet incomplete accounts of my abuse, and they were viewable, not only by the entire world, but by my child, my students, my students&#8217; parents, my friends, my employers, my colleagues, my family.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"hc\">Another, who gave her name only as Roza, said she&#8217;d never gone public before her name was released by the DOJ. &#8220;I kept my identity protected as Jane Doe. I woke up one day with my name mentioned over 500 times,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"hh\">&#8220;While the rich and powerful remain protected by reduction, my name was exposed to the world,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I cannot live without looking over my shoulder. I can only imagine the long-term impact this mistake will have on my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"hk\">The Justice Department did not immediately respond to NBC News&#8217; request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"hn\">Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OfTheBraveUSA\/status\/2034703340592832531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> said in March<\/a> that &#8220;mistakes were made&#8221; in the redacting process while scrambling to release the files, but &#8220;we took pains to protect victims.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"hq\">&#8220;When someone identified that there was a victim, we immediately pulled that document down, fixed it and put it back up,&#8221; he said then. &#8220;We don&#8217;t ever want to do anything to revictimize anybody that was victimized by the horrible crimes of Mr. Epstein.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A field hearing conducted by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee in Palm Beach, Florida, has come to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-639928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}