WASHINGTON — The Justice Department cautioned Friday that the files it released today tied to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein contain “sensationalist” false claims about President Donald Trump.
These numerous “sensationalist” claims, according to the DOJ, were submitted right before the 2020 election, in an apparent attempt to stop Trump from winning the presidential election. These claims include graphic assertions of sexual misconduct, including that the president raped a 13-year-old girl (for that specific allegation, the accuser did not leave any contact information, leaving authorities unable to contact the accuser).
Next to another one of the allegations, one claiming that the president attended “big orgy parties” with young girls, authorities specifically wrote that they deemed the complainant making this allegation to be “not credible,” writing: “Additional research showed 3 separate incidents involving police which resulted in mandatory psychiatric evaluations.”
The White House referred The Daily Wire to the DOJ’s notice that “this production may include fake or falsely submitted images, documents or videos, as everything that was sent to the FBI by the public was included in the production that is responsive to the Act.”
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 30: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks at a news conference to announce an update on the Epstein files at the Department of Justice on January 30, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election,” the DOJ said in a release. “To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false, and if they have a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”
Three million additional files were released on Friday as part of the “Epstein Files Transparency Act,” bringing the total number of files released to 3.5 million. During a presser on Friday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said that officials erred on the side of “over collection,” releasing more than 180,000 photos and 2,000 videos.
Not all of these videos and pictures actually depict Epstein, Blanche said. Many of the items released on Friday contain “large quantities of commercial pornography and images that were seized from Epstein’s devices, which he did not take or that someone around him did not take.”
“Some of the videos, though, and some of the images do appear to be taken by Mr. Epstein or by others around him,” Blanche noted.
Pictures of women that were released Friday were redacted, since these women are considered potential victims, with the one exception of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s cohort, currently imprisoned for her part in Epstein’s crimes. Blanche said that none of the photos of men were redacted unless it was necessary to redact the man in order to redact a woman.
According to Blanche, the White House did not have any oversight role in the reviewing of the documents. DOJ says more than 500 reviewers and attorneys at the DOJ participated in the process of readying and reviewing the documents.
“I don’t have anything to share about what’s new and what’s not new,” the deputy attorney general responded when asked whether the documents would expose high-profile individuals. In its release, the DOJ did say that “notable individuals and politicians were not redacted in the release of any files.”
The files released Friday were from five primary sources, according to the DOJ: “the New York case against Maxwell, the New York cases investigating Epstein’s death, the Florida case investigating a former butler of Epstein, Multiple FBI investigations, and the Office of Inspector General investigation into Epstein’s death.”
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