What Trump officials said about releasing the Epstein files

What Trump officials said about releasing the Epstein files

The Justice Department this week said “no incriminating ‘client list’” exists in connection with Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case, spurring outrage among many Trump supporters who had been promised damaging revelations about the case against the late financier.

The Justice Department’s announcement contradicts claims repeated for months by top officials in President Donald Trump’s administration, who said the public could expect a series of names, thousands of pages of evidence, and even criminal prosecutions linked to people associated with Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 inside a Manhattan jail while facing charges of sex trafficking scores of minors.

The department also said there was not enough evidence to bring charges “against uncharged third parties,” and that “no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted” in the Epstein case.

Many right-wing commentators and conspiracy theorists — including some who now work for Trump — have accused the federal government of a massive cover-up to protect powerful people who may have abused teenage girls in the Epstein case. They have also questioned the official account of Epstein’s death.

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