Overview
- The Justice Department released nearly 30,000 additional pages tied to Jeffrey Epstein, including flight logs, financial records, and hundreds of video and audio files with August 2019 surveillance footage.
- Officials cautioned that parts of the trove feature untrue, sensational claims submitted to the FBI shortly before the 2020 election.
- Some items were temporarily removed from the DOJ portal after a victim‑privacy warning from SDNY and were later restored once authorities concluded no victims were depicted.
- The documents include multiple references to President Trump, such as a 2020 prosecutor email noting flights he took on Epstein’s private jet in the 1990s, and there is no evidence in the coverage of wrongdoing by Trump.
- In his Truth Social message, Trump called critics “sleazebags,” claimed he distanced himself from Epstein years earlier, suggested most names that surface would be Democrats while singling out Rep. Thomas Massie, and wrote, “Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!”