Epstein files: The US government does not intend to open new legal proceedings / Trump considers himself “acquitted”
Assistant US Attorney Todd Blanche. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite / AP / Profimedia
The American Department of Justice reiterated on Sunday, through Deputy Secretary Todd Blanche, that it does not intend to open new legal proceedings in the case of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, despite the publication of millions of additional documents that continue to tarnish the image of personalities from the US, as well as from other countries, France Presse and Agerpres report.
In an intervention on CNN, Todd Blanche, a former personal lawyer of Donald Trump, said that he could not speak specifically about any investigation, but recalled what the Department had declared in July 2025.
“The review that we had done previously had concluded that there was no information” that could lead to criminal prosecutions, “and that's where we stayed after what we saw and what we published starting with the Epstein files,” he said.
“There's a lot of correspondence, a lot of e-mails, a lot of photos (…) But that doesn't necessarily allow us to prosecute anybody, and that's what matters to the American people,” he added.
The Department of Justice on Friday proceeded to publish a large volume of additional documents related to Epstein, stating that by doing so it respects the obligation imposed on the Trump administration for total transparency in this politically explosive file.
“We released more than 3.5 million documents that the whole world can now see and judge whether we were wrong,” Todd Blanche told CNN.
He thus referred to a joint memorandum published in July by the Department of Justice and the FBI, the federal police, which concluded the absence of new elements in the file that would justify the publication of additional documents or new prosecutions.
At that time, the announcement had inflamed Donald Trump's 'MAGA' support base, which sees the Epstein affair as confirmation of its suspicions regarding the depravity and corruption of the elites.
As for President Trump, who has long denied any involvement in the actions of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, he considers himself “absolved.”
“I haven't seen it myself, but I've been told by very important people that not only does this absolve me, but it's the opposite of what people were hoping for, I mean the radical left,” he said aboard Air Force One on Saturday night.
