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Extensive redactions and the partial release of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have angered some Republicans and done little to defuse a scandal threatening the party ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
US President Donald Trump, a Republican, touted the release of the so-called Epstein files on Friday (local time) as a show of transparency.
But a handful of Republican politicians and right-wing media figures joined Democrats in criticising the disclosures as inadequate and possibly in violation of a law that prompted their release.
While the criticism fell short of a broader party backlash, it underscored that the Epstein controversy was far from being put to rest and was likely to linger into next year, when Republicans will be fighting to keep control of Congress.

Beginning on Friday, a set of documents was made public, with a smaller follow-up release on Saturday, to align with a bipartisan law enacted by Congress in November. This law mandates the Department of Justice (DOJ) to unveil all files related to Epstein.

That was despite a months-long effort to keep them sealed by Trump, who once counted Epstein as a close friend.
Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing and has denied knowing about Epstein’s crimes.
The new disclosure represented only a fraction of the total data the Federal Bureau of Investigation and DOJ have said they possess related to Epstein and was heavily redacted, including hundreds of pages that were entirely blacked out.

Interestingly, the released documents prominently featured former president Bill Clinton, a Democrat and known political adversary.

Mich Jaggr with Bill Clinton and a woman whose face is redacted

Among the images made available on Friday was a photograph of former U.S. President Bill Clinton alongside Mick Jagger and an unidentified woman, sourced from the U.S. Justice Department.

Adding to the intrigue, a document that included a photo of Trump was reported missing from the Saturday release.

According to reports from the New York Times, NPR, and the Associated Press, up to 16 photos, including that of Trump, were later removed from the DOJ’s website on Saturday.

Democrats and Republicans alike criticised the Trump administration for not releasing all the files and for the extensive redactions.

Democratic Representative Ro Khanna, who co-wrote the legislation for full transparency, has suggested the potential impeachment of Attorney General Pam Bondi for the delay in releasing the complete files as required.

Republican Thomas Massie also believed that Bondi violated the law, warning in a post to X that she and others could face criminal charges in the future when the DOJ was in Democratic hands.

“People are raging and walking away,” she wrote on X.

Some conservative commentators also criticised the DOJ’s decision not to disclose more.
Owen Shroyer, a podcaster who was pardoned by Trump for his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in 2021 — but has since become a critic of the president — said he believed the DOJ was intentionally slow-walking disclosures.
“They covered up the Epstein Files. No other way to put it now,” Shroyer wrote on X after Friday’s release.

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