https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-officials-race-meet-friday-deadline-epstein-files-2025-12-19/WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department released a new trove of documents from its investigations into the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, bowing to pressure from lawmakers who forced their disclosure with a new law.The release follows months of political wrangling amid rebellion by some of President Donald Trump's staunchest supporters over his administration's reluctance to make public all records tied to probes into Epstein.Reuters is in the process of reviewing the latest documents.The Justice Department added a note to the webpage where it posted links to the documents that said "all reasonable efforts have been made" to redact victims' personal information, but warned that some could be disclosed inadvertently.The agency's website appeared to be struggling with visitor traffic, telling some that their attempts to view the material had been rejected.>NOT ALL DOCUMENTS TO BE RELEASEDDeputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News earlier in the day that the department would release hundreds of thousands of documents on Friday but not the entire cache of files relating to Epstein. He said he expected hundreds of thousands more to be released in the coming weeks as the department reviewed them to protect victims' privacy.Trump had initially urged fellow Republicans in Congress to oppose the new law, warning that releasing potentially sensitive internal investigative records could set a dangerous precedent.But many Trump voters accused his administration of covering up Epstein’s ties to powerful figures and obscuring details surrounding his 2019 death, which was ruled a suicide, in a Manhattan jail, where he was awaiting trial on charges of trafficking and abusing underage girls.
Trump, who promised on the 2024 election campaign trail to declassify the government's Epstein files if elected, has been seeking to move beyond the affair so that he can concentrate on a more pressing concern for Americans - the cost of living - ahead of the November 2026 midterm elections.Just 44% of American adults who identify as Republicans approve of Trump's handling of the Epstein issue, compared to his 82% overall approval rating among the group, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.Epstein's ties to Trump have been in the spotlight since Democrats in the House of Representatives last month released thousands of emails including one in which Epstein wrote that Trump "knew about the girls" without clarifying what that meant.House Republicans released more emails the same day, including one saying Trump visited Epstein's house many times but "never got a massage."Two days after those disclosures, Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate Epstein's connections to former Democratic President Bill Clinton and JPMorgan bank JPM.N. The following week, despite White House pressure to delay the vote, U.S. lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill forcing the release of the Justice Department records, which Trump then signed into law.>TRUMP DENIED KNOWING OF EPSTEIN'S ALLEGED SEX TRAFFICKINGTrump has repeatedly denied knowing about Epstein's alleged sex trafficking but has acknowledged that the two were friends until they had a falling out before Epstein's conviction in 2008.The latest files released may not represent all unclassified records held by the agency, however, because the law ordering their release allowed the Justice Department to withhold personal information about Epstein's victims as well as material that would jeopardize an active investigation.
Previous disclosures of Epstein records have revealed that even after his 2008 conviction he continued corresponding with high-profile figures, including former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, Clinton's former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, PayPal founder Peter Thiel, and Britain's former Prince Andrew, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his royal title over revelations about his links to Epstein.Spokespeople and lawyers for Bannon, Thiel and Mountbatten-Windsor have not responded to Reuters requests for comment about their interactions with Epstein.Summers stepped back from positions at Harvard University, OpenAI and other institutions and said he was deeply ashamed of his actions after documents released by House Democrats in November showed that Summers corresponded with Epstein up through 2019, even seeking relationship advice from him.JPMorgan paid some of Epstein's victims $290 million in 2023 to settle claims that it had overlooked his sex trafficking. The bank kept Epstein on as a client for five years after he was convicted of soliciting a minor in 2008.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein
>Not all documents released>Thousands of redacted pages in the dropBoth of these are violations of the law Trump signed and as such the Department of Justice is now in contempt of Congress
>>1467497I think this is grounds to call for an emergency reconvening, don't you think?
What the fuck one of these was just a barely covered ass and panties, THIS didn't need redacting? https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%203/EFTA00004248.pdf
>>1467537I'm guessing the only reason it's partially redacted is because it shows off a tattoo that confirms a victim's identity. Which would also explain why it was relevant enough to be included.
Wow it's literally nothing.
>>1467499Lmao
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%204/EFTA00006309.pdfJust gotta do this for a few hundred thousand more pages and then the president is in the clear.
Posting this here as well:https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/2002175357277921449>The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of the victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials.What a joke
the redaction is so fucking egregious its almost as damning as just seeing the photos
>>1467578What's the point if Trump's name is blacked out?
>>1467587I sincerely hope Massie drafts articles of impeachment over thisI don't know how you can construe an administration willfully breaking a law passed a month ago and signed by the head of that administration himself as anything other than criminal
>>1467626>What's the point if Trump's name is blacked out?A lot of this redacting seems to cover just five letters of a name tRump is five letters
>>1467470High levels of corruption and shills EVERYWHERE. GIVE 4CHAN their anonymous internet!!!!
>>1467648ITS OUR ANONYMOUS INTERNET AND WE WANT IT NOW!!
Oh, go hang out with your lover.
>>1467635Drumpf is above the law, remember? Hell get off scott free and promptly pardon his cronies, then escalate in Venezuela, all while spewing filth on a national address
Did not expect anything too significant with this latest Epstein release. The good stuff is going to have to be leaked.I’m certain Trump diddles kids. He’s just made too many creepy statements and was too close to Epstein.But he’s not just going to let the evidence get out. A few months ago he was obsessed with why Nixon didn’t burn the tapes.He is about to learn why.>>1467672>Drumpf is above the law, remember?So was he who said 'I am not a crook!'. The rest is history: as was Nixon.Like a certain tape, the fact a name is given the '[REDACTED]' treatment is in itself a smoking gun. Who was it who made a campaign policy of wanting the releasing of the Epstein files only last year, cultists?
So how long do you think it'll take for some savvy internet hackers to [REDACT] the redactions?
>>1467688Probably never since the original documents are most likely shredded or destroyed by now.
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/all-nameshttps://epsteinsblackbook.com/black-book-images/80.jpg
>>1467688>He says, eyes wide, hopeful that black ink can be digitally removed.What a disgrace.>>1467689Probably not.
>>1467699Given how incompetent this administration is, it is entirely possible they fucked up the redactions and we can see beneath them. IIRC, they've managed to do it before.
Totally weird that this American totally-not-israeli-intelligence could set up meetings with netanyahu and his bankhttps://imgur.com/a/sHc0YSG
Totally odd how Epstein was working with prominent democrats in US government to censor critics of Israel, that seems totally odd https://imgur.com/a/MxStRZE
>>1467732>>1467733>imgurYou know where to go back to
>>1467635It’s on Pam Bondi. Trump needs to fire her, NOW!!!
>>1467733And now even in death he wants both sides to censor our internet and lower our freedom of the net score even more while Iceland anons point and laugh. They have 94/100 uncensored internet and we have 76/100 which is free but susceptible to hackers getting our anonymity blown.
>>1467635>>1467841>What nearly happened to NixonOr the ultimate irony: Soviet Congress tell the Pedo-in-Chief 'You're Fired'. Or like Nixon, he fires himself.Taking that last ignominious trip on Marine One. Then JD Weird is sworn in and becomes Ford 2.0, but with less charisma and no aircraft carrier named after him. But a new tank is named the M-0 'Kegsbreath': a mobile septic tank.
>>1467575It's literally nothing because they redacted everything.
>>1467888>they redacted everythingAnd that's the problem.The lack of transparency makes for bad optics. What Republican voters in particular - who did so in 2024 on the basis of the campaign policy of 'Release the Epstein Files' - wanted, but have been denied by the very thing they voted for. Thus they'll come to their own conclusions. And even with redactions, they'll be able to read between the lines. A recorded conversation with Haldeman was 'nothing' to Nixon. The rest was history as he ultimately was.A tape. A photo of a desk, and redactions. Both smoking guns. Redactions are an admission of guilt.
>>1467894Has Trump tweeted anything about the redactions? The silence is deafening.
>>1467894>Redactions are an admission of guilt.You're not ready for full disclosure.I mean that unironically by the way. The current release has pictures of Epstein holding kids on his lap and/or being halfway in the pictures while he's half-naked in his bedroom.Anybody with half a brain already knows what's in the files regardless.
>>1467905The New York post got the exclusive unredacted pictures. Spam them for em. It was just talked about by Fox News Saturday night host Jimmy Faila.
>>1467888>It's literally nothingCorrect.You people have been on a witch hunt for something like 10 years now, and you will not stop until you breach the privacy of anyone and everyone who has ever lived in the same zip code as trump or epstein.. maybe not even then will you stop, I wouldn't be surprised if you double down on conspiracy theories using the fact that no evidence exists of wrongdoing must be proof of a coverup
>>1467931>Guys the fact we literally watched in real time as the DOJ yanked a photo with Trump in it off the site means nothing>He's not being redacted from the files because he's totally not in them>Again, ignore literally watching him being redacted from the files
>>1467934The NY post says he was with adult women, not minors.
>>1467938Why was the picture removed then? I'm sure it's a massive coincidence that literally one of the only photos where Trump is even visible in the background, in a way that clearly indicates Epstein would have more photos of him, just so happened to vanish over night from the "most transparent" admin's release?
>>1467929>The New York post got the exclusive unredacted pictures.There's CSAM in those files, no they didn't.They also neglected to disclose the CIA-Epstein connection in relation to 9/11 FORSOMEREASON
>>1467941Getting Trump is more important than the law.
>>1467902Not yet: if he ever will. But the fact he hasn't already says so much as the picture EFTA00000468:https://i.postimg.cc/vm2cJygZ/epstein-files-EFTA00000468.pngspeaks volumes of why it was removed than what it shows: certainly confirming what everyone already knew.>>1467905>You're not ready for full disclosureNeither was Nixon: certainly when he was forced to hand over that particular tape. What happened as a result.Trump will never be ready for the fallout resulting from all this. There were already those in the Senate weighing up either prioritizing Trump or their future political careers. This will be the tipping point towards the latter for them.>>1467938>The NY post says he was with adult women, not minorsThe NY Post can say what they likehttps://i.postimg.cc/cHhTtK84/trump-photo.jpgReality says otherwise.Because barely a teen=adult, amirite NYC & cultists?
>>1467977>https://i.postimg.cc/cHhTtK84/trump-photo.jpgFucking shit. We've got him now.Between that photo and this one: https://i.postimg.cc/vm2cJygZ/epstein-files-EFTA00000468.png I don't see how hewon't be resigning Monday.
>>1467941You only don’t believe the New York post because they don’t serve the interest of your globalist and pro censorship shill agenda. Your mask slipped off anon.
>>1467977>NYC and CultistsCongrats anon, You described the exact shills who want to censor us all, and cause us to drive a wedge between ourselves. Nope, this isn’t a typo, the shills are after ALL OF US.
Damn they really sent out a new shill script to try to distract with as many random rants about censorship as they could lmao.
>>1467977Putting a censorship square over anyone trump was with is so easy, even a child can do it. What was the saying of most media networks again? Oh yeah, that’s right “it’s just the facts”.
https://i.postimg.cc/cHhTtK84/trump-photo.jpgBeing anti-pedo is so easy. All those who rode the Lolita Express to Epstein Island for the sole purpose of being pedos must face justice. Evidence: the above photo.Those who don't want children's faces obscured are pedos. It's just the facts about subhumans that are defenders of their orange Pedo-in-Chief.
