BREAKING: Trump DOJ releases trove of Epstein files

The Department of Justice released a trove of the Epstein files on Friday to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The law was passed in Congress with near unanimous support earlier this year.

The portion of files were published on Friday and can be found here. Earlier on Friday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said that the release of the files includes "several hundred thousand" documents.

However, there will be some delay in releasing all the files and documents under the scope of the law, Blanche said in an interview on Friday. He added that the delay is to ensure that victims are protected in the release of the files. 

In a disclosure on the page where the files can be accessed, a privacy notice stated, "In view of the Congressional deadline, all reasonable efforts have been made to review and redact personal information pertaining to victims, other private individuals, and protect sensitive materials from disclosure.  That said, because of the volume of information involved, this website may nevertheless contain information that inadvertently includes non-public personally identifiable information or other sensitive content, to include matters of a sexual nature." 

In line with the law, some portions of the files have been redacted. "Redactions of victim names and other identifying information have been applied. In audio files, redactions of victim names and other identifying information have been implemented through the use of a steady, solid tone," the DOJ page with the files added.  

The new law mandated that the DOJ make a digital and searchable database of the files by Friday. Included in the files are "materials that relate to Ghislaine Maxwell" as well as "flight logs and travel records" in connection to Epstein and other records, according to the law summary. 

After taking on the task of releasing the files earlier this year, Attorney General Pam Bondi received criticism over the roll-out of files earlier this year that had already been publicly released. 

In a disclosure on the page where the files can be accessed, a privacy notice stated, "In view of the Congressional deadline, all reasonable efforts have been made to review and redact personal information pertaining to victims, other private individuals, and protect sensitive materials from disclosure."