American media reported that Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin stated that the name of US President Donald Trump appeared more than a million times in the original copies of the documents of Jeffrey Epstein, the businessman accused of sex crimes and trafficking of minors. He noted that this number far exceeds the number of times the name was mentioned in the redacted public versions, which did not exceed 5,300 times, according to the Daily Beast.
Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, explained that the discovery came after his review of some of the Epstein files that the Justice Department withheld when it released the latest batch of documents earlier this month.
In an interview with Axios, Raskin said: “There are huge amounts of information deleted,” adding that Trump’s name “came up over a million times, so it’s everywhere.”
This month, the US Department of Justice published a new collection of more than 3.5 million files, with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche calling it “the end” of the department’s review of these documents. However, the Daily Beast report noted that this batch represents only about half of the original six million documents reviewed, raising renewed concerns about a cover-up.
Raskin drew attention to the presence of inconsistencies in the data, and revealed that a document he reviewed showed that Epstein’s defense team quoted Trump as saying that Epstein “was a guest at Mar-a-Lago and was never asked to leave,” which contradicts another story that Trump has repeatedly repeated, which is that he fired Epstein many years ago.
In response to a request for comment from The Daily Beast, Trump’s office asked the site to focus on writer Michael Wolff’s contacts with Epstein, which the site said Wolff had previously explained.
For her part, the Daily Beast quoted White House spokeswoman Carolyn Levitt as confirming that Trump’s position is firm, and that he severed his relationship with Epstein because he was “disgusting,” unlike others who did not do so.
In the same context, The Hill website quoted Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis as saying that her position had changed after seeing the unedited documents, noting that she realized the seriousness of the case after seeing information related to minor victims.
The website also reported that lawmakers confirmed that a review of the files revealed the names of at least six people “potentially involved” after their names appeared in Epstein’s documents.
Over the weekend, survivors of the Epstein case launched a new campaign to demand the release of more documents, accusing the Trump administration of hiding more than 3 million files. In contrast, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the administration’s handling of the case, while acknowledging that most people “would not be satisfied” with the content of the published documents.
