Published on the website include: photographic materials, recordings, flight and conversation records that were collected during investigations. They include, for example, previously unknown photographs of former President Bill Clinton with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, the financier's partner and collaborator. The woman helped Epstein organize a network of abuse of underage girls.
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Earlier on Friday, the Ministry of Justice announced that some documents would not be made public due to ongoing proceedings or national security issues.
Todd Blanche, deputy attorney general, in a letter to members of Congress quoted by the media, emphasized that the Ministry of Justice had identified 1,200. names of Epstein's victims and their loved ones. All materials that could reveal their identity have been redacted or classified, he said.
Blanche announced that on Friday the ministry is to publish a total of several hundred thousand documents, and thousands more materials are to be disclosed in the coming weeks. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson, referring to the publication of the documents, declared that “the Trump administration is the most transparent in history.”
The Epstein case. Donald Trump has spoken
In the second half of November, US President Donald Trump announced that he had signed a law ordering the Ministry of Justice to disclose the full files of the Epstein case. The US Congress adopted it the day before. The breakthrough occurred when, after weeks of delay and resistance from Republicans and the president, a majority of congressmen supported a petition forcing a vote on the matter.
Although the White House pressured Republicans who supported the petition to withdraw their signatures, in the end, in the face of certain defeat, Trump urged the party to vote for the bill, arguing that he had “nothing to hide” and that the Epstein case was a matter for Democrats, not Republicans.
The Ministry of Justice has previously published approximately 30,000 pages of documents in the Epstein case, but a significant part of them has been truncated. The Trump administration has so far claimed that it cannot disclose the rest of the documents for legal reasons.
Trump was a longtime friend of Epstein, who was convicted in 2008 of soliciting minors for prostitution, and in 2019 hanged himself in prison before a federal trial on more serious charges. Despite knowing each other for many years, Trump claimed that he kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club because he was “stealing” his masseuses. On Tuesday, however, he said the reason for breaking off relations with him was because he was a “sick pervert.”
