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The Epstein files release did nothing to clear up the scandal’s biggest question

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20.12.2025
Acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, announces charges against Ghislaine Maxwell during a July 2, 2020, press conference in New York City. | Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images

The Trump administration was legally required to release all documents related to federal investigations of Jeffrey Epstein by Friday, with only limited grounds for withholding documents and full explanations required for any redactions.

It did not do this. Or anything close to it.

The Justice Department released several thousand documents Friday, but top officials acknowledged that they had hundreds of thousands more that weren’t released yet, purportedly because they weren’t reviewed or ready. Most of the documents they did release were photos — either photos the FBI took of Epstein’s properties, or photos Epstein himself possessed. Of the........

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