A new batch of Jeffrey Epstein files released on Tuesday, December 23, contains numerous references to President Donald Trump, including documents detailing flights he took on his then-friend's private jet, and other claims that his Justice Department described as "untrue and sensationalist."
The latest release contains reams of previously unseen material from the investigation into Epstein, a wealthy US financier who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking underage girls.
A first collection of heavily redacted files made public last Friday sparked criticism that the Justice Department was deliberately excluding references to Trump.
Trump figures prominently, however, in the thousands of documents published on Tuesday, underlining his close ties to the disgraced financier, who was already a convicted sex offender when the more serious trafficking case began.
The Justice Department issued a statement defending the 79-year-old Republican shortly after the files dropped, saying some documents "contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump."
