The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) released this Tuesday (23) around 30,000 additional pages of documents related to financier Jeffrey Epstein and stated that the allegations against President Donald Trump in the files are “false and sensational”.
“Some of these documents contain false and sensationalized allegations against President Trump, which were submitted to the FBI shortly before the 2020 election. To be clear: the allegations are unfounded and false and, if they had even a modicum of credibility, they would certainly have already been used as a weapon against President Trump”, stated the DOJ, in a post on X.
“However, under our commitment to the rule of law and transparency, the Department of Justice is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein’s victims,” the ministry added.
Last Friday (19), the deadline stipulated by a law passed in the US Congress and sanctioned by Trump expired for the DOJ to release all documents on the federal charges against Epstein, who killed himself in prison in 2019, while awaiting trial for a sex trafficking scheme.
Only part of the documents were released on Friday and the DOJ said the rest would be published in the following weeks, sparking criticism from the Democratic opposition.
Among the documents revealed Tuesday is a Jan. 8, 2020, email sent by an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, who reported that Trump had traveled on Epstein’s private jet at least eight times between 1993 and 1996, “including at least four flights on which [Ghislaine] Maxwell was also present.”
English socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was Epstein’s partner and girlfriend and is serving a 20-year prison sentence on charges related to the financier’s sex trafficking scheme.
In another document released today, Epstein says in a 2019 letter (when Trump was in his first term) to doctor Larry Nassar, convicted of abusing athletes on the US women’s gymnastics team, that “our president also shares our love for young, attractive girls.”
Trump has always denied knowledge of or participation in Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme and was never charged for related facts, as was former Democratic President Bill Clinton (1993-2001).
In files released Friday, Clinton appeared in photos with Epstein and Maxwell. On Monday (22), the Democrat asked the Trump administration to immediately release all files in which he appears.
