The US Department of Justice has once again posted thousands of documents in the Epstein case online. The dataset includes tens of thousands of pages of email histories, scans of court documents, photos, and video and audio recordings. In total, the documents amount to ten gigabytes. They can be accessed on the ministry’s website (Link to the data set).
These are so far the most interesting findings from the new publication:
- US President Donald Trump appears several times in the new documents.
- For the first time, the Justice Department is trying to classify possible connections to Trump.
- New emails with a suspected connection to British ex-Prince Andrew are included.
- It is the largest data set published in the Epstein case to date.
Trump is said to have flown on a private jet several times
The name of US President Donald Trump appears several times in the new data set, such as, among other things CBS News and the Reuters news agency report. Accordingly, in an email history from 2020, someone writes to a colleague (both names are blacked out, only the sender’s signature is visible and reads “Assistant Attorney General in the Southern District of New York”) that Trump flew on Epstein’s private jet significantly more often than was publicly known at the time. The emails talk about eight flights between 1993 and 1996.
Ghislaine Maxwell is said to have been on at least four of these flights. Maxwell was the confidant of Jeffrey Epstein and is serving a 20-year prison sentence. According to the verdict, she played a central role at Epstein’s side in setting up a ring to sexually abuse girls.
The email also said that Trump took at least one flight with Epstein and a 20-year-old (name redacted), as well as two flights with “women who could be possible witnesses in a case against Maxwell.” The fact that Trump’s name appears in the documents does not mean that he did criminal things. He and Epstein were friends for a long time and, according to Trump, later fell out. Trump wrote in a social media post in 2024 that he was never on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet.
On Monday, the US President publicly commented on the publication of the files for the first time and People complain about “damage to their reputation”.whose photos are now shown in connection with Epstein. He referred, among other things, to the former Democratic US President Bill Clinton.
Ministry of Justice speaks of false allegations
Shortly after the publication of the new documents, the US Department of Justice addressed the references to Donald Trump in the files in a post on Platform X. Some of the documents contained “untrue and sensationalistic allegations against President Trump” that were submitted to the FBI shortly before the 2020 election, the department wrote, adding: “To be clear, the allegations are baseless and false, and if they had any shred of credibility, they would certainly have already been used against President Trump.”
Another explosive document in the new dataset related to Trump is a handwritten letter. It is attributed to Epstein and is directed at Larry Nassar. Nassar was a sports doctor for the US national gymnastics team and is in prison for sexually abusing more than 250 athletes.
In the letter, shortly before his suicide in August 2019, Epstein complained to Nassar that they were both in prison for sexual offenses while “the president shares our preference for young, attractive girls.” The letter goes on to say of Trump, who was then in the third year of his first presidency: “Whenever a young beauty walked by, he loved to ‘grope’ her.” It cannot be verified whether the letter actually came from Epstein.
New emails with a suspected connection to ex-Prince Andrew
A fake Austrian passport with a photo of Epstein can also be seen in the documents. In it he has a different name; Saudi Arabia is given as his place of residence. The passport was found by the FBI during a search of Epstein’s home in 2019 and played an important role in assessing how much of a risk Epstein would have been to flee had he been released on bail.
The broadcaster BBC and the Guardian also reported on emails that were presumably related to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew) stand. It is believed that the pseudonym in the emails (“The Invisible Man”) belongs to him. The email with Ghislaine Maxwell is about finding girls for a stay in Peru. The sender is from Balmoral, the summer residence of the English royal family is located in the castle of the same name. These emails are not evidence of criminal activity.
The first data set sparked criticism
The first upload of documents in the Epstein case at the end of last week caused a lot of criticism. Because that Ministry of Justice
had despite a deadline set by Congress only some of the documents were released. Politicians in the US Congress and Epstein victims reacted outraged. Numerous files had also been made illegible in advance, such as a completely blacked out 119-page document from the New York justice system.
The temporary deletion of photos showing Donald Trump also sparked criticism.
The financial advisor Jeffrey Epstein, who was networked in the highest circles, was found dead in his prison cell in 2019; according to official information, he committed suicide. He was accused of to have abused numerous girls and women and given them to celebrities. The financier had excellent contacts in high society, which led to numerous speculations about the scope of the scandal. The question kept coming up, which prominent figures were involved in Epstein’s machinations.
Mick Jagger and Bill Clinton can be seen in photos
Some celebrities appear in the photos published so far. Alongside rock star Mick Jagger, pop star Michael Jackson, who died in 2009, and actor Kevin Spacey Former US President Bill Clinton can be seen relatively often. The fact that people appear in the photos does not mean that they are accused of wrongdoing. A Clinton spokesman called on the US government to immediately release remaining material relating to Clinton. A refusal would raise the suspicion that the ministry is not interested in transparency, but rather in using selective publications to suggest wrongdoing by individuals.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer introduced a motion on Monday calling for legal action against the Trump administration over the incomplete release of files. “Instead of ensuring transparency, the Trump administration only published a tiny fraction of the files,” criticized Schumer. This is a “blatant cover-up.”
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche justified the delay by saying that any reference to the identities of the more than 1,000 Epstein victims must be removed from the hundreds of thousands of documents and photos in the government’s possession. The opposition Democrats, however, accused Trump of wanting to protect himself by delaying the release of files. The US President had been for months blocked from releasing the documents and called the Epstein affair a “hoax”.
