Latest Epstein Files release shows scope of DOJ probes into Epstein, Maxwell
The Department of Justice today released its biggest tranche to date from the Epstein Files, the department’s investigative cases into the deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
2025-12-23 20:08:07 - VI News Staff
The more than 10,000 files show internal deliberations between federal prosecutors, attorneys for victims and attorneys for Epstein.
The files also include tips that the FBI and Justice Department received about possible wrongdoing by Donald Trump, and other Epstein associates. One of the DOJ emails references a photo of Trump with Ghislaine Maxwell that was found on a cell phone belonging to Republican political strategist Steve Bannon. The photo itself is blacked out and it is not clear when it was taken.
The documents, released overnight, also include a strange FBI report, redacted of names, that describes a tip the agency received from a limo driver who alleges that he overheard Trump talking about “Jeffrey” and that he had also spoken to a woman who claimed that she had been raped by Trump. It is not known whether the FBI investigated the tip — or whether the tip was ever dismissed as a fraud — but the tipster followed up with the woman and she told him she did report the rape to “police.”
There is nothing in the documents so far indicating that Trump committed any criminal wrongdoing, and the files do not show that he was under investigation. Trump has repeatedly denied he was involved with Epstein’s crimes.
In a statement on social media Tuesday the DOJ said, “Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. 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.” During a press conference at Mar-a-Lago Monday, Trump called the release of photos a “terrible thing,” saying they could “ruin” the reputations of “highly respected bankers and lawyers and others.”