The Trump administration began releasing files from the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein for sex trafficking this Friday. This publication comes after Congress forced the American president to sign a law, by bending his arm, to make public certain files that Donald Trump has resisted revealing since coming to power.
The deadline expired at midnight Friday in the United States, and the Justice Department began releasing thousands of photos and call recordings; some with extensive censored content.
The total number of documents that will be released within the congressionally mandated deadline is unclear, although Justice Department No. 2 Todd Blanche said on Fox News that he expected the department to release “hundreds of thousands” of documents on Friday and then several hundred thousand more in the coming weeks.
The release includes photographs, call logs, grand jury testimony and certain documents and records that were already in the public domain.
The documents could contain the most detailed examination yet of nearly two decades of government investigations into Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women and minors.
This publication has long been sought after by a public eager to know whether any of Epstein’s wealthy and powerful associates knew of or participated in the abuse. Epstein’s victims also sought to know why federal authorities closed their initial investigation into the allegations in 2008.
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