(Washington) The US Department of Justice reiterated on Sunday that it does not intend to launch new prosecutions in the case of sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, despite the publication of millions of additional documents which continue to splatter personalities around the world.
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Speaking on CNN, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, said he could not speak specifically about any investigation, but reiterated what the department said last July.
“Our previous review concluded that there was no information” that could lead to criminal prosecution, “and that’s where we left based on what we saw and what we published from the Epstein files,” he said.
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Deputy Justice Secretary Todd Blanche was Donald Trump’s personal attorney
There’s a lot of correspondence, a lot of emails, a lot of photographs (…) But that doesn’t necessarily allow us to prosecute someone, and that’s what matters to the American people.
Todd Blanche, Assistant Secretary of Justice
The US Department of Justice began publishing a mass of additional documents concerning Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, claiming to respect the obligation imposed on the Trump administration to be fully transparent on this politically explosive file.
“We have made more than 3.5 million documents public that the whole world can now see and judge if we were wrong,” Mr. Blanche continued on CNN.
The official was referring to a memorandum published jointly in July by the department and the FBI, the federal police, concluding that there was no new element in the file which would justify the publication of additional documents or new prosecutions.
At the time, the announcement had inflamed Donald Trump’s “MAGA” base, which sees in the Epstein affair the confirmation of its suspicions about the depravity and corruption of the elites.
As for President Trump, who has long denied any involvement in the actions of sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, he considers himself “absolved”.
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Donald Trump on board the presidential plane Air Force OneSunday
“I haven’t seen it myself, but I’ve been told by very important people that not only does this absolve me, but it’s the opposite of what people were hoping for, you know, the radical left,” he said aboard the presidential plane Air Force One Saturday evening.
The affair continues to cause turmoil across the world, from Slovakia where an advisor to Prime Minister Robert Fico accused of having exchanged with Jeffrey Epstein submitted his resignation, to Norway.
The president of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic organizing committee, Casey Wasserman, apologized to him on Saturday after his name appeared among the latest documents.
