WASHINGTON — On Friday afternoon, the Department of Justice made public its investigatory files on the late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein... sort of.
Congress passed a law last month giving the Trump administration 30 days to put the material in a public, searchable and downloadable database. Despite fighting it for months, the president eventually signed the legislation.
The new website, calling itself The Epstein Library, includes browsable catalogues of thousands of PDF documents from the government’s investigations of Epstein, who died in jail in 2019 after being charged with sex trafficking minors.
The site also includes a search function, though queries for names of people known to have associated with Epstein ― including Bill Clinton and Donald Trump ― turned up no results when HuffPost accessed the site on Friday afternoon. A disclaimer notes that many records are handwritten and may not appear in the search function.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche suggested earlier Friday that while the DOJ has “been working tirelessly since that day” to make the files public, the department may not fully comply with the deadline set by The Epstein Files Transparency Act.
