The US Department of Justice has dropped more files related to the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
US President Donald Trump's name has appeared in the latest file drop, although authorities have not accused Trump of criminal wrongdoing related to Epstein.
The DOJ said overnight that amongst the nearly 30,000 pages of documents newly released are "untrue and sensationalist" claims about Trump that which were submitted to the FBI just prior to the 2020 election.
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"To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponised against President Trump already," the Justice Department said in a post to X. The department did not specify which claims were untrue.
The DOJ added that "nevertheless", it was releasing those documents "out of our commitment to the law and transparency".
The Justice Department has been compelled to release all Epstein-related materials in its possession after Congress passed the "Epstein Files Transparency Act" law last month.
The release on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning (AEDT) comes after a partial batch of heavily redacted files were initially released on Friday. They included never-before-released photographs of former US president Bill Clinton with Epstein and a 1996 description of a criminal complaint against the late convicted sex offender.
Epstein cites 'our president' in 2019 letter to Larry Nassar
Epstein appears to make crude references to Trump in a short 2019 handwritten letter from prison addressed to convicted sex offender Larry Nassar.
The letter does not explicitly name Trump, but Epstein wrote about "our president" in the message, sent in August 2019, the same month Epstein died by suicide in prison. Trump was president at the time.
It is included in the latest collection of Epstein documents released today. In the letter, Epstein wrote: "Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls."
Authorities have not accused Trump of any wrongdoing or charged him with any crimes in connection with Epstein.
"Dear L.N.," Epstein wrote, "As you know by now, I have taken the 'short route' home. Good luck! We shared one thing … our love and caring for young ladies and the hope they'd reach their full potential. Our President also shares our love of young, nubile girls." Epstein makes another lewd reference to Trump's treatment of women in the letter.
"Life is unfair," Epstein wrote, before finishing the letter.
While not referencing this specific letter, the Justice Department on Monday released a statement saying some of the documents released "contain untrue and sensationalist claims" against the president.
"To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponised against President Trump already."
CNN reached out to the White House for comment on the letter.
The envelope was postmarked on August 13, 2019, and sent from Epstein's Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City to Nassar, who was listed as an inmate at a federal prison in Arizona.
The letter was postmarked three days after Epstein died in prison. Prison staff are authorised to read and inspect outgoing mail, which can cause delays. It's not clear why Epstein's letter was permitted by prison officials to be sent and why it was delayed.
CNN previously reported that while he was imprisoned, Epstein sent a letter to Nassar — although the contents of the letter were not disclosed. It was discovered by prison officials investigating Epstein's suicide weeks after his death. It is not known if Nasser and Epstein had a relationship.
Nassar, the longtime doctor for the USA gymnastics team and Michigan State University, is serving a 60-year sentence in federal prison on child pornography charges. More than 150 women and girls publicly told a court he sexually abused them.
The envelope, addressed to Larry Nassar at 9300 S. Wilmot Road, Tucson, Arizona, 85756, a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility, was marked as "return to sender", as the addressee was "no longer at this address".
Records 'show Trump travelled on Epstein flights'
Among the released documents is an email dated January 8, 2020, by an assistant US attorney from the Southern District of New York who said flight records show Trump "travelled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware)".
Trump was listed as a passenger on "at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, including at least four flights on which (Ghislaine) Maxwell was also present", it said.
On a flight in 1993, Trump and Epstein "are the only two listed passengers; on another, the only three passengers are Epstein, Trump, and then-20-year-old".
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"On two other flights, two of the passengers, respectively, were women who would be possible witnesses in a Maxwell case," the assistant US attorney said in the email, which was sent during Trump's first term.
The assistant US attorney added: "We've just finished reviewing the full records (more than 100 pages of very small script) and didn't want any of this to be a surprise down the road."
Trump and Epstein have a long history together, and authorities have not accused Trump of criminal wrongdoing related to Epstein. The vast scope of the documents related to Epstein cite many individuals and being named does not in itself show criminal wrongdoing.
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Trump has long tried to distance himself from Epstein. Trump has called him a "creep", insisted he was "not a fan", and said that before Epstein's death, they hadn't spoken in years. Yet a comprehensive CNN review of court records, photographs, interviews, and other public documents paints a portrait of an enduring relationship until the mid-2000s, when Trump says he broke it off. Trump now repeatedly downplays his past friendship with Epstein, even as new material continues to surface.
Material in Epstein files will 'continue being reviewed and redacted'
The Department of Justice has previously said it would continue reviewing and redacting materials from the thousands of files related to the late sex trafficker Epstein.
"Photos and other materials will continue being reviewed and redacted consistent with the law in an abundance of caution as we receive additional information," the DOJ wrote in a post on X on Saturday.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act required the Justice Department to redact content that could potentially identify victims who were sexually abused.
But the DOJ has faced scrutiny for the level of redactions in the first batch of documents released on Friday.
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The department acknowledged that day that the "size and scope" of the redaction process it undertook made the result "vulnerable to machine error" and "instances of human error".
Representative Thomas Massie, the Republican lawmaker who led the effort to force a vote on the legislation to release the files, told CNN on Sunday that the DOJ was not complying with the law Congress passed last month.
"Not only are they trying to create an exemption that doesn't exist in our law, they are expressly ignoring the requirement to provide those materials," Massie said.
Epstein survivor mortified her name went unredacted
An Epstein survivor who has only ever chosen to identify herself anonymously as "Jane Doe" was startled to learn that her name appeared multiple times in the Justice Department's initial release on Friday of files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
She told CNN in an exclusive interview yesterday that her attempts to get the DOJ to redact her name from the publicly available documents had been unsuccessful so far.
Jane Doe said she both witnessed and experienced Epstein's abuse in 2009 and reported her experience to the FBI the same year. That time frame is particularly significant, because it was after Epstein pleaded guilty to two state prostitution charges in Florida in the aftermath of receiving a non-prosecution deal with federal prosecutors.
https://x.com/TheJusticeDept/status/2003442658643988641Epstein would serve just 13 months in prison, though for much of his jail sentence Epstein was allowed to be out on a work-release program — a period of time when his abuse continued, survivors have said.
CNN verified that Jane Doe's name appears many times in the Epstein files released so far by the DOJ.
CNN is choosing to only describe Jane Doe's experience with and allegations against Epstein in broad and agreed-upon terms to protect her identity. She said that since Friday, she has received unsolicited phone calls.
CNN reached out to the DOJ for comment on Jane Doe's unredacted inclusion in the files.