The Department of Justice released more files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after being criticized for not doing so with all the documents by Friday’s deadline.
The Justice Department on Tuesday said it released nearly 30,000 more pages.
“Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election,” the DOJ wrote on X. “To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.
“Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein’s victims.”
The documents show that a subpoena was sent to Mar-a-Lago in 2021 for any records that pertained to the government’s case against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s co-conspirator. The notes include the number of times Mr. Trump flew on Epstein’s plane.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said additional files will be made public in the next few weeks.
Many of the latest pages were heavily redacted, with Mr. Trump’s name and photos rarely on them.
Thousands of other documents had been released, along with photos, by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee over the past year.
Reps. Ro Khanna, California Democrat, and Thomas Massie, Kentucky Republican, co-sponsored the Epstein Files Transparency Act to get the documents released. Mr. Trump signed it into law last month.
The president has said he was friends with Epstein, but the two had a falling out in the early 2000s. He said he didn’t know what the late financier was up to and has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
