A new article from The Wall Street Journal, the media outlet that the president of the United States sued for 10 billion dollars, once again complicates the White House by revealing on Wednesday afternoon that the attorney general alerted Donald Trump that his name appeared in the Epstein files, which have not yet been publicly disclosed.
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The same WSJ reported last week that in 2003, Trump sent a “bawdy” letter to the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on the occasion of his 50th birthday. That publication was what prompted the president’s lawsuit against the newspaper, the company News Corp, and also against the owner Rupert Murdoch, who was counted among the president’s closest people.
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Initially, Trump refused to disclose the case files, accusing that their alleged connection was “fake news” invented by the Democrats and that there was nothing important in them, but after a few days he agreed to release only the jurors’ testimonies. This afternoon, a federal judge in Florida rejected that request.
The Department of Justice reviewed the Epstein case files
According to The Wall Street Journal article and quoting high-ranking officials from the administration, the Department of Justice (DOJ) reviewed a large number of documents related to the Epstein case, they discovered that Donald Trump’s name appeared several times, which does not necessarily mean he is involved in any crime.
It was there that Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney Todd Blanche met with the president to inform him that his name was in the files and that many other high-profile figures were also mentioned.
Anyway, according to the sources cited by the WSJ, in the meeting Bondi and Blanche told Trump that the officials who reviewed the documents found unverified rumors about him and other people who knew Epstein.
Meanwhile, CNBC reported that the FBI assigned about a thousand agents to review around 100,000 documents related to Epstein. According to Democratic Senator Richard Durbin, the staff was instructed to hide any mention of Trump. The president dismissed the revelations, calling them “a new Democratic scam” and “sordid, but boring.”