The Justice Department said it was releasing the final tranche of Epstein files after a lengthy review
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With the release, Blanche said the DOJ’s obligations under the Epstein Files Transparency Act will be completed — more than a month after the congressionally mandated deadline for the department to vet and release materials related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In total, DOJ will release more than 3 million pages, 2,000 videos and 180,000 images on Friday. Its team sorted through more than 6 million records, Blanche said.
The records went through “multiple layers of review and quality control,” Blanche said.
Members of Congress can request to review un-redacted portions of the files, Blanche said.
All women were redacted from photos and videos, Blanche said. Men were not redacted unless it was necessary in order to protect the privacy of women in the images or footage.
Among the files released by the US justice department today is a copy of Ghislaine Maxwell’s police booking intake form from July 2020.
It includes a picture of Maxwell in what looks like a prison orange jumpsuit, along with personal details including her full name and a redacted address in Bradford, New Hampshire.
The new records mentioning the president largely show Epstein showing his disdain for Trump and criticizing him during his first administration.
But one email reviewed by Fox News Digital was from March 2016, between Epstein and author and reporter Michael Wolff. In the email, Wolff is encouraging Epstein to come up with an “immediate counter narrative” to James Patterson’s book about him, “Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy.”
“You do need an immediate counter narrative to the book,” Wolff writes. “I believe Trump offers an ideal opportunity. It’s a chance to make the story about something other than you, while, at the same time, letting you frame your own story.”
“Also, becoming anti-Trump gives you a certain political cover which you decidedly don’t have now,” he continues.
In another email, three years later, in January 2019, Epstein writes to Wolff: “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
