Latest batch from DOJ includes court records, flight logs and heavily

The Department of Justice on Tuesday released another batch of files related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The latest documents appear to contain court records, emails, and some heavily or completely redacted files.

In a Tuesday morning post to X, the DOJ announced the latest drop and claimed to have released “nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.” The post also refers to claims made against President Donald Trump in the latest release.

“Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election,” the post states. “To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”

Trump, who was largely unmentioned in the initial batch of files released by the DOJ on Friday, is a former friend of Epstein’s and has long denied any wrongdoing related to the disgraced New York financier. Epstein died by suicide while in detention in 2019.

This is the second major release of files since Friday, when all documents were required under the Epstein Files Transparency Act to be released with minimal redactions.

In a letter to Congress on Friday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers that “due to the volume of materials,” the DOJ would release the documents on a “rolling basis” through the end of the year, defying the law’s requirement to release the files in their entirety by Dec. 19.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on Monday that he would force the Senate to vote on suing the DOJ for the full release of files.

Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., who co-sponsored the House bill that ordered the DOJ to release the Epstein files, are among congressional lawmakers considering holding federal officials, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, in contempt for the handling of the files. 

Khanna also threatened to begin impeachment proceedings against Bondi and Blanche if the DOJ continues to flout the law.

A group of Epstein survivors on Monday joined the call for congressional oversight in a statement. Nineteen survivors signed the letter, which urged “hearings, formal demands for compliance, and legal action, to ensure the Department of Justice fulfills its legal obligations.”

The survivors also noted that many of the released documents were heavily redacted.

“At the same time, numerous victim identities were left unredacted, causing real and immediate harm,” the group wrote.

The DOJ also raised eyebrows over the weekend when several photos — including one that contained images of Trump’s face — were quietly removed from the online database for the Epstein files. The photo was later restored.

The Justice Department has maintained that it is working to review and redact material required by the law to protect the privacy of Epstein’s victims. 

“This is an arduous process, as each…