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The Trump administration estimates that there are There are still 700,000 files in the Jeffrey Epstein case It needs to be reviewed and released, which may take another week.
So far, about 750,000 documents Case of late convicted sex offender A Trump administration official said it was reviewed by a team of 200 people and released. axiosJoe reports a “palpable sense of sadness” at the crisis behind closed doors.
It follows Tuesday’s document dump by the Justice Department, its largest to date, including hundreds of emails and other correspondence from Ghislaine Maxwell and law enforcement and prosecutors investigating Epstein in the wake of her prison death in 2019, which was ruled a suicide.
President Donald Trump, who has a Years-long relationship with Epstein dating back to the early 2000sIt was referenced several times in documents released Tuesday.
Trump is not accused of wrongdoing in connection with his crimes, and the presence of any individual within the files does not indicate wrongdoing. Department of Justice immediately leapt to his defenseClaiming that the files contain “false and sensationalist claims”, they suggest that it was used to influence the 2020 presidential election.
The administration has been dogged by persistent controversy, further hampered by heavily redacted files and its “clumsy” and partial release of documents.
There was immediate outrage when the Justice Department failed to release all of the long-awaited files in its possession, despite a federal law signed by Trump requiring the administration to publicly disclose everything it had by December 19.
“There is a clear sense of frustration and irritation in the administration about all the headlines related to Trump and Epstein and the inability to explain and disclose everything,” axios noted.
Officials are becoming “frustrated” with the saga as it shows few signs of slowing down. “It’s a combination of extreme frustration over everything: our reaction to what Congress did, and concern that this won’t go away,” one official told the outlet.
Another official said, “This will end soon.” axios“Conspiracy theories won’t work,”
According to the outlet, many of the 700,000 documents to be reviewed are duplicates, and so not all of them will be disclosed, but thousands more are expected next week.
The Justice Department released nearly 30,000 files on Tuesday, and the materials have been released so far , Which have been heavily edited and shared mostly without any context , It has not advanced the public’s understanding of the scope of Epstein’s crimes and his ties to an alleged sex trafficking ring accused of exploiting and abusing young girls.
References to Trump were prominent in the latest batch, prompting the department to issue a statement claiming some of the evidence is “fake.”
“There has been a lot of sensationalism and even outright lies about the ‘Epstein Files’ over the past few days,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch said in a statement on Monday night.
Blanch pointed to a letter from “Jay Epstein” of Manhattan Correctional Facility to Larry Nassar, the former women’s gymnastics team doctor convicted of exploiting and sexually assaulting hundreds of young athletes, which was among the documents released by the Justice Department.
The letter was posted on August 13, 2019, three days after Epstein’s death. It was marked “Return to Sender” and was discovered in the mailroom more than a month later.
“Our President shares our love for young, nubile girls,” the letter reads. “When a young beauty passed by, she liked to ‘snatch’ while we were busy snatching food in the system’s mess hall.” However, hours after the document was published, the Justice Department determined that the letter was “bogus.”
According to the Justice Department, the handwriting did not match Epstein’s and was posted not from New York, but from Virginia, where Epstein was jailed.
“The so-called Epstein Nassar letter is clearly fake,” Blanch continued in the statement. “Miswritten handwriting, incorrect return address, and postmarked three days after Epstein’s death. These are not facts. We will continue to produce every document required by law. Let’s not let Internet rumor engines overtake the facts.”
Other revelations revealed Tuesday include a January 2020 message from a federal prosecutor in Manhattan claiming flight records showed Trump had “traveled on Epstein’s private jet more times than previously known (or we knew).” This included the period when prosecutors were preparing to bring charges in the case against Maxwell.
Trump previously said he was “never on Epstein’s plane.”
According to the message, there were at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996 on which Trump was a passenger. Maxwell was also present on at least four of those flights, according to an assistant US attorney, whose name has been redacted.
Additionally, the documents include numerous tips collected by the FBI in the early 2000s about Trump’s involvement with Epstein and parties at his properties. The messages did not say whether any follow-up investigation was conducted or whether the allegations were confirmed.
In June 2021, a message from an investigator reported an image of Maxwell with Trump was found on Steve Bannon’s phone.
Investigators identified at least 10 co-conspirators in Epstein’s sex trafficking case in 2019, none of whom have been publicly disclosed, according to newly released documents. The finding comes despite testimony from FBI Director Kash Patel, who told senators earlier this year that there was “no credible information” that Epstein trafficked women and girls to anyone other than himself.
Three of those alleged co-conspirators lived in Florida and were subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury. According to a July 2019 email, there were others in Boston, New York City and Connecticut. According to one message, one is “a wealthy business man in Ohio.”
According to the documents, after Epstein’s death in 2019, prosecutors prepared several memos to determine whether to charge alleged conspirators in his case.
But the files released by the Justice Department only reference memos — not documents.
Speaking from Mar-a-Lago in his first public comments about the documents Monday night, the president said Epstein was “all over Palm Beach” and that several people came with him.
“You probably have photos of other people who innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago,” Trump said. “A lot of people are very angry that photos are being released of other people who really have nothing to do with Epstein, but they’re in a photo with him because he was at a party, and you ruin someone’s reputation.”