MILLIONS of explosive new Epstein files dumped by DoJ in shock release: Live updates

The Justice Department on Friday released at least three million pages of documents linked to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the department had ‘released more than three million pages, including more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images in total.’

‘This means that the ministry produced approximately 3.5 million pages in accordance with the law,’ he said.

Hundreds of thousands of documents related to the investigation into his sexual crimes have already been made public.

Those documents include footage of the disgraced financier and his longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell socializing with high-profile people, including former president Bill Clinton and Michael Jackson.

Acting AG Todd Blanche said six million pages of the Jeffrey Epstein files were collected and contextually relevant, but three million were released.

‘Although the law allows the retention of information that must be kept secret in the interest of national security or foreign policy, no files are retained or altered on this basis,’ he said.

‘As you all know, under the law, the Department is then required to submit to the Judiciary committees of the House and Senate a report listing all categories of records released and preserved, a summary of the redactions made, including the legal basis for such redactions, and a list of all government officials and politically exposed persons named or referenced in the law. We will do so in due course as required by law.’

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche insisted the Justice Department did not protect Donald Trump when reviewing the Epstein files.

‘No, we did not protect President Trump,’ he said. ‘We didn’t protect or protect anyone. I think there is a hunger or thirst for knowledge that I don’t think will be satisfied by examining these documents.’

Blanche said Trump had been ‘consistent’ in his stance on Epstein and instructed the Justice Department to be transparent.

“There has been no change,” he said.[Trump’s] ‘The Ministry of Justice’s instructions were to be transparent, to publish the files, to be as transparent as we could, and that’s exactly what we did.’

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche admitted that ‘mistakes are inevitable’ in the redactions of the Epstein files.

‘The attorney general, the FBI director and our partners in this administration work hard every day to protect the most vulnerable among us with this level of protection,’ he said.

‘Mistakes are inevitable. Of course, we want to immediately correct any editorial errors our team may have made.’

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche explained the Department of Justice’s regulatory process.

“Categories of documents withheld include those permitted to be retained under the law, files containing personal information of victims, personal and medical files, and similar files,” he said.

‘Disclosure of this would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.’

Blanche said there were ‘comprehensive responses’ to the files to protect victims and all women were denied access.

“With the exception of Maxwell, we have not re-edited footage of any men unless it was impossible to re-edit the woman without also re-editing the man,” he said.

‘However, for this purpose and to ensure transparency, if any member of Congress wishes to inspect any part of the responsive production in any unedited form, he or she may make arrangements with the department to do so.’

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is holding a press conference to discuss the newly released Epstein files.

‘I am here today to talk about the ministry’s compliance with production obligations,’ he said.

‘We are also publishing a letter today that we will forward to Congress and various internal protocols related to our review.’

The release of the Epstein files was met with growing backlash after large portions of the documents were redacted.

The Justice Department emptied hundreds of thousands of pages on Friday in accordance with a law passed last month mandating the release of these men.

The legislation lays out specific guidelines for what can and cannot legally be redacted in documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in a New York prison cell in 2019.