The Trump administration revealed last Friday that it would only release half of the Epstein files, blatantly violating the recently passed law that required the documents’ full release some six weeks ago and sparking concerns about a governmental cover-up.
The deputy attorney general Todd Blanche said DOJ had now “completed” its review of the Epstein files.
“We’re releasing more than 3 million pages today, and not the 6 million pages that we collected,” Blanche said, noting that 2,000 videos and 180,000 images would also form part of the new trove.
“Today’s release marks the end of a very comprehensive document identification and review process to ensure transparency to the American people and compliance with the act,” he added.
Passed by the 119th Congress and signed by the President in November 2025. The Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R.4405), signed into law on November 19, 2025, requires the Department of Justice to publicly release records related to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. It mandates the Attorney General to disclose DOJ-held documents concerning Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump’s name has already appeared over 5,000 times “but there is nothing to see.” Primarily since there have been huge pages completely redacted.
Epstein Files Transparency Act requires the United States attorney general to “make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format” all files pertaining to the prosecution of the deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (if needed, declassifying them to the extent possible) within 30 days of passage, and then to give the Judiciary Committees in both the House of Representatives and the Senate an unredacted “list of all government officials and politically exposed persons” named in the files.
Apparently the DOJ thinks a half done job is good enough. Contact Bob Latta if you think this is not good enough.
Bob Latta wrote to me that …… “The U.S. Department of Justice erred on the side of over-collecting materials, and any materials not produced fall within one of the following categories: duplicate documents ….. withheld under privilege ….. withheld based upon exceptions under the act (depictions of violence) and items that are not part of the case file. Thank you again for contacting me on this issue.”
Sorry, I find it hard to believe DOJ would only release half of the Epstein files, and then claim there are over 3 million pages, that don’t shed any light on this travesty.
David J. Neuendorff
Bowling Green
