The Department of Justice has again released at least 8,000 new documents from the investigation and file of the former stockbroker, pedophile and convicted sex offender, amid intense criticism and accusations from Democrats and Republicans of withholding information from the release of the documents in the file by the department and his administration.
Among them is an email, which states that Donald Trump appears as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, including four flights on which Ghislaine Maxwell was also present on Epstein’s private jet. Other listed fellow travelers include Marla Maples (Donald Trump’s second wife), his daughter Tiffany and his son Eric.
The new documents include video and audio, including photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s cell surveillance cameras dating back to August 2019, when he was found dead. His death was attributed to suicide.
Games with the content from the ministry
The Justice Department has posted about 11,000 links to new documents online, but some lead nowhere.
The Justice Department was required by law to release the entire file on Friday, Dec. 19, but said it needed more time to release the remaining documents with caveats to protect victims whose identities could be revealed through the thousands of photos, videos and texts.
Complaints about attempts to hide information
Democrats, however, see this delay as a political maneuver aimed at avoiding the publication of incriminating information about Donald Trump, who appears in photos alongside Epstein.
“This is clearly an attempted cover-up,” Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer charged yesterday, introducing legislation to step up pressure on the Justice Department, which is “breaking the law” by not releasing the entire dossier on Friday.
“The Department of Justice must stop protecting the rich and powerful who have not been indicted” in this case, complained Democratic congressman Ro Hanna, one of the authors of the law that obliges the Department of Justice to proceed with the publication of all documents in the case and requested the publication of specific documents from the file.
The public is waiting for revelations
The release of the documents, which came from the US authorities’ investigation into the powerful stockbroker and sex offender who died in 2019 before his trial, should, under normal circumstances, bring to light his relationships with high-profile figures, including Donald Trump.
Although during his 2024 election campaign he had agreed to release the contents of the Epstein dossier, he later reversed course, denouncing a “fraud” orchestrated by the Democrats.
Obsessed with the sex scandal, his constituency, MAGA, revolted when the Justice Department announced in the summer that no new evidence had been found to warrant the release of additional documents from the file or the laying of new charges.
After months of pressure, Trump was forced to give in to pressure from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress and signed into law in November a law mandating the release of all unclassified documents from the Epstein scandal.
