The Department of Justice guarantees full protection to victims during the disclosure process, which will extend over several weeks. The case of the billionaire, found dead in prison in 2019, continues to generate controversy and conspiracy theories, involving prominent figures such as Trump, Clinton and others.
The Trump administration is preparing to release “hundreds of thousands of documents” this Friday about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and other publications will be made in the coming weeks, a Justice Department official said.
This Friday is the deadline set for the release by the administration of Republican President Donald Trump of all the documents in his possession regarding this case, which has shaken the United States for years.
“I hope that today we will publish several hundred thousand documents,” Justice Department number two Todd Blanche told Fox News, specifying that these documents will be “in very diverse forms.”
However, the person in charge implied that this would not be all of the documents, as “several hundred thousand” others should still be released “in the coming weeks”.
Blanche justified this deadline by the Government’s need to ensure that “each victim is fully protected”.
“We are examining every document that we are going to make public, ensuring that each victim — their name, their identity, their story — is fully protected, to the extent necessary,” Blanche insisted.
“At this time, there are no plans for new charges, but the investigation continues,” Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer also said.
The death of Jeffrey Epstein, found hanging in his cell in New York on August 10, 2019, before being tried for sexual crimes, fueled numerous conspiracy theories according to which he was murdered to hush up a scandal involving prominent figures in the country.
Donald Trump promised, during his 2024 presidential campaign, bombshell revelations about the “Epstein case”, a billionaire with whom he was friends for decades.
However, in recent months the Republican President has changed his speech, classifying the case as a “farce” set up by the Democratic opposition.
After opposing it for a long time, in November he ended up enacting the law that obliges his administration to make all documents related to this case public.
Some of the photos already released show Epstein in an office with Steve Bannon, former advisor to Donald Trump, posing with filmmaker Woody Allen and left-wing intellectual Noam Chomsky apparently aboard a private jet.
Other images show passports and identity cards belonging to Ukrainian, Russian and South African women, with their names and photos crossed out.
The existence of links between Epstein and the people depicted was known and none of the photos released since last week appear to reveal any criminal behavior.
Last week, Democratic deputies had already released several images, including of Trump and former president Bill Clinton, as well as former British Prince Andrew.
Others pictured were Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, and Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group.
Donald Trump has always denied having any knowledge of Epstein’s criminal activities and claims to have broken up with him in the early 2000s, long before he was legally investigated.
