Trump administration fails to release Epstein Files
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I know you’ll find it hard to believe that the Trump administration is failing to comply with the law to protect the president and his allies but:
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said that the Justice Department is only releasing some of the Epstein files Friday, a move members of Congress slammed as a violation of the law President Trump signed last month.
“I expect that we’re going to release several hundred thousand documents today, and those documents will come in all different forms — photographs and other materials associated with all of the investigations into, into Mr. Epstein,” Blanche said on Fox News, adding that “over the next couple of weeks, I expect several hundred thousand more.”
The DOJ began the files‘ release at 4 pm E.T., though the breadth and novelty of the documents is initially unclear. Many are heavily redacted. The webpage had a waiting queue for those trying to access them, and the site’s search function seems nonfunctional — searches for “Epstein” and “Maxwell” return no results.
In a letter from Blanche to Congress, he implied that the rest of the files will be released in 2025, writing that he “will inform Congress when that review and production are complete by the end of this year,” per the New York Times.
It’s unclear whether that promise, still in violation of the law, will be enough to satisfy the spectrum of lawmakers who threatened retribution for incomplete disclosures on Friday.
In an uncaptioned tweet, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who led the effort to release the files with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), highlighted the part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act (signed Nov. 19) that mandates the release of the files “not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this act.”
In summary, they have produced a small fraction of the files, and redacted large parts of what they did provide, both in violation of a statute enacted by Congress:
The Epstein Files, everybody!
[image or embed]— Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) Dec 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Garcia: Well, first, I think we should be very clear: This is absolutely breaking the law. They have not produced actually what they were required to do, which was all the files by today in a way that was searchable for the public…
[image or embed]— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) Dec 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Garcia: In our initial estimation—It could be that we're only getting about 10% of what the DOJ has. And of that 10%, 5% of that has already been released. And the other 5% is highly redacted. So we're getting very little so far
[image or embed]— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) Dec 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If you want to fill in the blanks with material that would be extremely damaging to Trump you would be correct.