The Department of Justice has released less than 1% of the so-called Epstein files, a court filing has revealed, as Democrats step up criticism of the Trump administration’s “lawlessness” for keeping records under seal.

The department conceded that only 12,285 documents, totalling 125,575 pages, relating to the disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have been published to date, despite a federal law requiring the vast majority to be released by 19 December.

Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, wrote a five-page update to Paul Engelmayer, the federal New York judge overseeing the case, on Monday, asserting that efforts to protect the identities of Epstein’s victims were a priority, and had slowed the process.

“There are more than two million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review,” she wrote in the letter co-signed by Todd Blanche, her deputy, and Jay Clayton, US attorney for the southern district of New York.

"What are they trying to hide?” Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said in a post to X on Monday accusing the justice department of failing to submit a required unredacted list to Congress “of all government officials and politically exposed persons” named or referenced in the files.

“It’s been 17 DAYS since the Trump DOJ first broke the law and failed to release all the Epstein files. It’s been 14 DAYS since Trump’s DOJ released anything at all – with the DOJ doing everything in its power to delay and obfuscate.”

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    You know what’s “funny”?

    MAGA stands together against pedophilia, blaming the left. Their source? Some roll playing teenagers on 4chan. One even did an armed raid on a pizzaria.

    Now, loads and loads of evidence stacks up of their dear leader being a pedophile and close friend to the world’s biggest pedophilia ring leader (already widely known before first term elections), yet they stand with their pedo criminal dictator.

    I believe MAGA made a remarkable achievement, namely a discovery of a new level of hypocrisy, far higher than anyone ever theorized being possible.

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        I mean we’re going to be finding little bedbugs of corruption from the trump admin for the next 50 years. As transparent as an iceberg.

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    This thing is over now, isn’t it?

    A war has starte the and news media lost interest in the president being a pedophile

    Fuck, America is predictable if anything

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      I don’t think it will ever be over. The minute news slows from Venezuela the files are back in the headlines. They have to keep doing things to distract, going to be a wild ride.

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    They also moved the FBI headquarters, and I suspect they will claim they lost a lot of the files in transit. The more time they let it stew the harder it will be to disprove, so they will keep gaslighting as long as possible until they bring out the excuse.

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      They should call for a Congressional audit of the FBI. I bet they could get a lot of support for something like that from the public.

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    Hilarious that the elites are shoving AI up everyone’s ass and everyone in this admin seems to being doing literally EVERYTHING with AI.

    But redacting the Epstein files is ONE task that has to be done manually.

    Seriously any day now there’s going to be a letter written by Epstein filled with em-dashes that exonerates Trump.

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    <despite a federal law requiring the vast majority to be released by 19 December.>

    The very FACT that they have NOT released the files now is a CLEAR indication that they NEVER intended to release them at all.

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    … as Democrats step up criticism of the Trump administration’s “lawlessness” for keeping records under seal.

    Oh good! And here I was wondering if they were going to DO anything at all, but they’re on the case! Silly me for doubting the dems.

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      remember both billionaire donors, ceos for both parties on the list, and most likely any d IS ON THE list, but gop probably makes up a large majority of it.

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      Why even make a distraction? They could brazenly come out and say “we’re not releasing anymore. What are you going to do about it?”

      And Congress will just sit there going 👉👈 and nothing would happen. I truly believe that Congress has lost all power at this point. They are a collection of figureheads that couldn’t enforce a parking lot, let alone the laws of a country. They can pass whatever law, or make whatever sanction they want, but there’s no one around to actually enforce it anymore. All that power has gone to the Executive branch.

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    Hear that MAGA? Next time you’re getting ready to parrot that nonsense about “Promises Made, Promises Kept,” remember that two of his CENTRAL promises of his campaign were releasing the Epstein Files, and America First - staying out of other countries business, specifically no regime change, and no nation building. And now we have both, AND they are still hiding the Epstein Files.

    We should remind all MAGAs as often as possible.

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    More damning evidence that high profile people are involved.

    Look, I don’t give a shit if they’re all not released.

    The way they’ve behaved, the way they approached the subject, the way they try downplaying it all. They’re all complicit child-fuckers.