Nervous hours and possibly days lie ahead for Jeffrey Epstein’s friends and associates, as reporters and other interested parties engage in the daunting task of ploughing through the latest batch of documents, videos and images released by the US Department of Justice on Friday morning.
With more than three million pages, two thousand videos and one hundred and eighty thousand images to sift through, it could be a while before we know whether the trove reveals anything incriminating about the financier’s relationship with Donald Trump or other household names. The New York Times, after an initial sorting of the paperwork, claimed that there are at least 3,200 documents to mention Trump, and possibly many more as yet undetected.
Many of those “mentions” come in newspaper articles that Epstein and Trump were in the habit of exchanging, or e-mails by other people discussing Trump’s political fortunes. By Friday afternoon in Washington, no one was yet claiming to have discovered a smoking gun.
But is already evident that even without one, the release of the files is not the end of the matter, and that Trump will never escape the suspicion of impropriety for as long as the Department of Justice continues to hold files that it claims it cannot release publicly.
Announcing the documents’ release, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche conceded that some files, not numerated by him, are still being held back. He claimed that decision was consistent with the law passed by Congress last year, saying documents containing material depicting child sexual abuse, individuals’ medical records or personal identifying information could legally with withheld. But he insisted no documents containing classified material remain in the government’s possession, even though the law allowed for that possibility.
Congressman Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California who co-authored the law, raised immediate questions about Blanche’s veracity and vowed to review the document release closely. “If there’s no cover-up this release should have the 302 statements and prosecution memos to show who these rich and powerful men were” in Epstein’s orbit, he said. He told MSNOW TV “the survivors just want a transparent release”, and indicated that he suspected Blanche was not delivering one.
Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in Florida in 2000 (Photo: Davidoff Studios/Getty)Congressman Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, went even further, accusing the Department of Justice of violating the law. “Donald Trump and his Department of Justice have now made it clear that they intend to withhold roughly 50% of the Epstein files, while claiming to have fully complied with the law”, he fumed. “This is outrageous and incredibly concerning…they are in violation of the law”. Khanna later claimed “the DOJ said it identified over 6 million potentially responsive pages, but is releasing only about 3.5 million….this raises questions as to why the rest are being withheld.”
Additionally, many of the released documents are heavily redacted, in keeping with the pattern of previous disclosures by the government. The Department of Justice claims those redactions occur to protect victims, and to maintain the integrity of ongoing investigations. Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed last November to have received “new information” about Epstein’s activities, although that was before the discovery of millions of pages of documents that were unexpectedly located in December in the US Attorney’s office in New York.
Since then, other work at the Department of Justice has come to a virtual standstill, as hundreds of officials were ordered to review the Epstein documents before any could be placed into the public domain. The Trump administration has been widely faulted by critics for foot-dragging in its efforts to comply with a law requiring the government to release everything in its possession that relates to Epstein. But in reality, the task of protecting victims and sorting through the documents for duplicates has convulsed prosecutors.
The work was so extensive, that it threatened to delay prominent and entirely unconnected legal cases. The legal process against former Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, accused by the US of narco-terrorism, was slowed by the attention the Epstein files required. Other cases, including one relating to the mid-air collision last year in Washington DC that killed 67 people aboard a commercial and a military helicopter, were also delayed by the Epstein workload.
As we’ve learned from previous document releases, the mere mention of people including Trump and Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, does not equate with proof of any kind of criminal conduct. Both men deny anything inappropriate or illegal about their friendship with the disgraced and deceased sex-trafficker. Documents previously released by the Department of Justice contained no evidence of wrongdoing by either man, nor by the Clintons, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Woody Allen or other prominent figures photographed alongside Epstein.
But for as long as the US Government continues to keep hold of any documents that do not directly pertain to the protection of victims, Democrats are indicating that they will continue to claim a Trump-orchestrated cover-up is underway. “Our work and investigation are just getting started”, vowed Garcia.
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