According to the department, these claims were submitted to the FBI as external tips shortly before the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) early Tuesday released a massive new tranche of documents connected to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, unveiling fresh details that reference President Donald Trump and other prominent figures.
The newly released trove contains more than 11,000 files totaling nearly 30,000 pages, comprising photographs, court records, FBI and DOJ documents, emails, news clippings and video materials.
Among the most striking revelations is a 2020 internal email from a New York prosecutor, apparently sent to a colleague, which claims that Epstein’s flight logs showed that Trump flew on Epstein’s private jet “many more times” than was previously known.
However, CBS News reports that most other references to Trump in the newly released documents originate from news articles circulated among DOJ employees via email, rather than from direct witness testimony or investigative findings.
In a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter), the Justice Department sought to temper public interpretation of the files, cautioning that some documents contain “untrue” claims made against President Trump.
According to the department, these claims were submitted to the FBI as external tips shortly before the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
“Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election,” it said.
“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.”
“Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein’s victims,” it added.
Epstein, who died in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, has remained at the center of one of the most controversial scandals in modern American history, largely due to his extensive ties with high-profile figures across politics, business and royalty.
Emails from 2020 reveal that FBI technical engineers detailed the vast amount of material seized from Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse and Caribbean island, citing over 1 million pages of documents alongside extensive electronic data.
“We are talking about terabytes worth of data over multiple forms of digital evidence. Phones, tablets, loose media, cameras, DVRs, servers, laptops, and desktop computers. We have gotten past encryption on multiple devices,” one official wrote.
In a May 6, 2020 email titled “memos,” an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York referenced memos drafted in connection with Epstein’s case.
However, both the sender’s and recipients’ names were redacted. Epstein’s 2019 criminal case was handled by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.
According to the email, the first memo listed covered “co-conspirators we could potentially charge, the Monday after Epstein's death (delivered that Wednesday) (seven pages)".
Another memo is a "co-conspirator update memo, December (86 pages)." Yet another is described as a "corporate prosecution memo, December" that is 13 pages, according to the email, and was "never discussed.”
The assistant U.S. attorney also mentioned a “perjury/NM memo,” projected to be about 30 pages.
The Justice Department’s latest document release also contains an August 14, 2019 email titled “co-conspirator memo,” sent by an assistant U.S. attorney with a New York phone number. The email notes that “a draft of the memo is attached.”
An August 14, 2020 email includes several attachments, one described as “A December 2019 update memo on the status of our co-conspirator investigation,” with the senders’ and recipients’ names redacted.