“This Epstein email and essentially his blessing and support of the Trump 2020 rule, it just really affirms what we’ve been saying all along,” said Shiwali Patel, senior director of Education Justice at the National Women’s Law Center.

“It’s meant to be an anti-survivor rule,” she said. “I don’t know if it could be made any more clear after the Epstein files revealed his role in support of it.”