A Congressman who says he has viewed the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files has said the US President’s name came up ‘more than a million’ times.
Democrat Jamie Raskin is one of many representatives being allowed to view the unredacted versions at the Department of Justice headquarters this week.
‘Trump’s name… it appears more than a million times. So it’s all over the place,’ he told Axios.
‘In the database, I typed in the words ‘Trump,’ ‘Donald or Don’ and it came up with more than a million results. I obviously didn’t have the time to review each one, and I obviously cannot guarantee that every mention of a Donald is Donald Trump as opposed to some other Donald.’
In the initial trove of redacted documents released by the DOJ, Trump’s name appeared around 5,300 times.
Raskin’s claims may show that the US leader is mentioned far more than previously realised, though this does not indicate any wrongdoing.
Yesterday, Republican Thomas Massie and Democrat Ro Khanna, who fought for the Epstein files’ release for more than a year, said one individual they saw in the unredacted data was ‘pretty high up in a foreign government’.
Massie said one person involved was a ‘well-known, retired CEO’, adding: ‘DOJ should unredact this. Why did they redact it?’
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the file’s redactions, however, touting: ‘The document you cite has numerous victim names.
‘We have just unredacted Les Wexner’s name from this document, but his name already appears in the files thousands of times. DOJ is hiding nothing.’
Is Trump in the Epstein files?
Short answer? Yes, thousands of times. Though each mention of his name is not a direct tie to any criminal wrongdoing.
However, one file released seemed to be at odds with Trump’s narrative that he kicked out paedophile Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago club in the mid-2000s because he was a ‘creep’.
An unredacted email, that Raskin says he saw, involved a conversation between lawyers for both Trump and Epstein.
Raskin said: ‘Epstein’s lawyers synopsized and quoted Trump as saying that Jeffrey Epstein was not a member of his club at Mar-a-Lago — but he was a guest at Mar-a-Lago and he had never been asked to leave.
‘And that was redacted for some …inscrutable reason.’
Another document showed that Donald Trump called the Palm Beach Police Department after Epstein’s arrest and said ‘thank goodness’ the cops were stopping him.
The President reportedly added: ‘Everyone knows he’s been doing this.’
Trump has continued to deny any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.
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