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Unredacted Epstein files have Trump’s name 'everywhere,' POTUS mentioned 'more than a million' times

Unredacted Epstein files have Trump’s name 'everywhere,' POTUS mentioned 'more than a million' times

Donald Trump pic from Epstein releases Photograph: (House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform)

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A Democrat reviewing the unredacted Epstein files says Donald Trump’s name appears over a million times in the database, though not every mention may refer to the president. What exactly do those references contain, and why are millions of documents still hidden? Scroll down.

US President Donald Trump's name appears in the Epstein Files over one million times, revealed a top democrat who reviewed the unredacted version of the notorious documents. The jaw-dropping revelation was made by Congressman Jamie Raskin, the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. Notably, a heavily redacted version of the files, with over three million documents, was released to the public in January of this year. The massive release included emails, photos, and videos, among other things.

Tons of redacted stuff, millions of Trump mentions

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Speaking to Axios, Raskin acknowledged that "there's ton of redacted stuff," and that when he ran a search for the POTUS's name in the unredacted files, "it appears more than a million times. So it's all over the place".

He later clarified that he "'Trump,' 'Donald or Don' and it came up with more than a million results." The Democrat added that he "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."

He revealed that the Mar-a-Lago exchange was "one of the first documents I came across." He was referring to an exchange where Epstein’s legal team reportedly quoted Trump as saying Epstein "was not a member" of his Mar-a-Lago club but remained a "guest" who had never been asked to leave.

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3 million Epstein files still unreleased?

On January 30, the Department of Justice released a trove of over 3.5 million Epstein files under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

While a huge chunk of these files is redacted from the public, government representatives have been given a database tool to review the files. However, Raskin said that the "DOJ database review tool given to Members is confusing, unreliable, and clunky". He also revealed that the members have been given four computers and can use them for review between nine and five.

"To me, this whole rollout of saying that members can come from nine to five to sit at those four computers is just part of the cover-up," asserted the Democrat. He added that the 3 million documents that the DoJ hasn't publicly released "are the ones I'd like to see".

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Moohita Kaur Garg is a senior sub-editor at WION with over four years of experience covering the volatile intersections of geopolitics and global security. From reporting on global...Read More