Doj publishes Jeffrey Epstein files, reveals little new information

Jeffrey Epstein shows an undated hand out photo that was made available to the US lawyer Southern District from New York. On Thursday, the Ministry of Justice published a number of documents associated with Epstein. Foto with the kind permission of the US lawyer Southern District from New York/EPA-FE

The publication also contained pages of the flight protocol, a list of evidence, a fully reduced list of 254 masseuses and a contact book – although the content was already publicly known.

Trump had arrested himself for the publication of government documents in connection with Epstein, a registered sex offender who was arrested during his first term because of sexual trade.

Epstein died of suicide in a cell of the correctional enforcement in Manhattan in August 2019 in a suicide in which he was captured when he was waiting for his process.

The wealthy financer was connected to many influential people, including Trump, raising questions about their potential participation in Epstein's crimes and led to various conspiracy theories.

Before the documents were published on the website of the Ministry of Justice, Bondi and the FBI director Kash Patel spent some selected conservative political commentators of the documents in white folders. Videos that are shared online by some of the influencers show that the influencers who smile and show the binder left.

“I went with an interesting souvenir,” said Chad Prather, moderator of the Chad Prather Show Podcast, on X with a picture that held the folder.

However, not everyone was satisfied with the publication.

MP Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla.

“This is not what we or the American people asked and a complete disappointment,” she said about X.

On Thursday, Bondi classified the publication of the documents as proof of Trump's alleged obligation to transparency and said that further documents would be published.

She suggested that the reason why only a few new documents were published on Thursday was that the FBI field office in New York was owned by other documents and had not handed it over.

She said that a “source” told her about “thousands of pages with documents” that were held by the New York field, and “despite my repeated inquiries”, the existence of the files was never disclosed.

“Until 8 a.m., February 28th, the FBI will deliver the complete and complete files to my office,” she said in a letter to Patel. “The Ministry of Justice will ensure that a public disclosure of these files is carried out in a way to protect the privacy of victims and in accordance with the law, as I have carried out my entire career as a public prosecutor.”