The Robert F. Kennedy Division of Justice Constructing on Dec. 19, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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The Division of Justice began releasing recordsdata associated to the life, demise and felony investigations of convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein Friday. Recordsdata continued to be posted on its “Epstein Library” web site on Saturday.
However NPR recognized greater than a dozen recordsdata launched by the DOJ on Friday which are now not out there Saturday afternoon, together with one which exhibits President Trump’s photograph on a desk amongst a number of different pictures. The eliminated recordsdata additionally present varied artistic endeavors, together with these containing nudity.
On its web site, the Justice Division directs individuals to report any recordsdata that ought to not have been posted by notifying the company utilizing a devoted e mail handle. A press release on the high of every web page of the web site mentioned: “In view of the Congressional deadline, all affordable efforts have been made to assessment and redact private data pertaining to victims, different non-public people, and shield delicate supplies from disclosure.”
The DOJ acknowledged, although, “due to the amount of knowledge concerned, this web site might nonetheless include data that inadvertently contains private personally identifiable data or different delicate content material, to incorporate issues of a sexual nature.”
The DOJ didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon why the recordsdata have been now not out there.
This photograph illustration taken in Washington, DC, on Dec. 19, 2025 exhibits a court docket doc after the Justice Division started releasing the long-awaited information from the investigation into the politically explosive case of convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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After the preliminary launch of recordsdata, some members of Congress raised considerations about what was lacking from the info units.
“There are highly effective males, bankers, politicians who we all know from survivors – they’ve advised us this — who have been at these events the place there have been many younger ladies, and some have been underneath age, and these highly effective males knew about it, and so they did not say something,” Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., advised NPR. They should be no less than publicly held accountable.”
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who cosponsored the Epstein Transparency Act within the Home together with Khanna, criticized the redactions.
Posting on X, he mentioned the discharge “grossly fails to adjust to each the spirit and the letter of the legislation.” He additionally warned “a future DOJ might convict the present [Attorney General] and others” for not correctly releasing all recordsdata the legislation mandated be made public.
Aside from the photograph that’s now not out there to obtain, Trump’s identify and picture seems hardly ever within the new paperwork out there. There are just a few photos of him with ladies and a framed photograph of Epstein and a redacted girl with a $22,500 outsized examine signed by Trump.
Whereas Trump wasn’t talked about a lot this time round, he was a frequent topic of emails and textual content messages in one other Epstein file tranche launched by the Home Democratic Oversight Committee — with properly over a thousand completely different mentions — although primarily as the topic of Epstein’s near-obsession along with his presidency, because the latter positioned himself as a Trump whisperer of kinds to his highly effective associates.
NPR’s Rahul Mukherjee and Stephen Fowler contributed reporting.
