The POTUS has vehemently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein. There is also no suggestion that the pictures imply any wrongdoing.
Amongst the hefty files include images of former President Bill Clinton, including one in which he was swimming with Epstein’s former-girlfriend and associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as an unusual portrait painting in which he was wearing a dress.
The late singer Michael Jackson as well as Diana Ross, Mick Jagger, Chris Tucker, the former Prince Andrew, and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, have also cropped up in several images released by the DOJ.
It remains unclear when or where these photos were taken, or the context surrounding them. It is also unknown whether the extent of association Epstein had with certain figures or whether he had attended any of these events.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has released some of its files on Jeffrey Epstein after Donald Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law.
The countdown for the Justice Department officially began on November 19, when Trump signed the legislation ordering the department to release all of its documents from the investigation into Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died in prison while awaiting trial in August 2019.
The legislation stated that the department had 30 days to release the documents, but the department took it down to the wire.
As the clock ticked, the House Oversight Committee continued to urge the department to release its documents by sharing its own information about Epstein, including photos from his estate.The files have now been released and can be accessed on a dedicated page of the US Department of Justice website, via four separate links. Each of the links appears to contain a vast amount of documents to look through.
Prior to today’s (December 19) release, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox & Friends that the department expects to publish ‘several hundred thousand pages’, followed by more in the coming weeks.
But the fact that the DOJ has not released all the files has caused some controversy, with Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden dubbing the move as ‘an insult to the intelligence of the American people’.
