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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

DOJ rushes to give context for ‘sensationalist claims’ against Trump in Epstein docs. They haven’t done it for others

The Department of Justice published another huge tranche of files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein early Tuesday while warning that the release included “untrue and sensationalist claims” about President Donald Trump.

The DOJ has been under fire since it responded to Friday’s deadline set by the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act through Congress in November by releasing an incomplete set of documents and photographs drawn from to its past investigations into the disgraced billionaire, much of which was heavily redacted.

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