Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche cited victim protection protocols to explain why the Department of Justice initially removed a photo of President Donald Trump from the Jeffrey Epstein files on Saturday, even as he admitted the agency does not believe the image actually depicts any victims.
At least 16 files vanished from the DOJ’s public Epstein document web page less than a day after they were posted Friday. Among them was file 468, an image showing a drawer filled with photographs, including one with Trump alongside Jeffrey Epstein, Melania Trump, and Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. Another photograph in the drawer showed Trump surrounded by women.
