US releases thousands of new Epstein-linked documents
The Justice Department, which has posted around 30,000 more pages, said some contained ‘untrue and sensationalist’ claims against President Trump
Thousands of new documents linked to the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were made available Tuesday by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), amid mounting criticism over the pace of the publication and heavy redactions.
The documents included a 2020 email from a prosecutor indicating US President Donald Trump had travelled aboard Epstein’s private jet “many more times than previously has been reported”.
At least 8,000 files – around 30,000 pages – were posted online, including hundreds of videos or audio recordings, notably surveillance footage from August 2019, the month Epstein was found dead in his jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
The DOJ posted around 11,000 links to new documents, but some of them appeared to lead nowhere.
The department said on Tuesday that some of the latest documents contained “untrue and sensationalist claims” against Trump, which were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 US election.
“To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponised against President Trump already,” the DOJ said in a post on X.