Overview
- The FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York informed the Justice Department they had located more than one million additional Epstein-related documents now under round-the-clock review.
- Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, most records were due by December 19, but only partial, heavily redacted batches were posted, prompting Democrats, including Senate leader Chuck Schumer, to demand full compliance and accuse the administration of withholding material.
- Media outlets and online users demonstrated that some PDFs were improperly redacted, with blacked-out text recoverable via copy‑paste or simple image tools, exposing details the DOJ had intended to obscure.
- The DOJ said an alleged Epstein letter referencing the president was determined to be inauthentic by an FBI analysis and warned that some released materials include unverified or false submissions.
- President Trump denied wrongdoing, portrayed the matter as politically driven, and insisted he distanced himself from Epstein years ago, even as his name appears in multiple records that do not themselves establish criminal conduct.