Allies downplay president’s links to Epstein but newly released documents offer slightly more complicated picture
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Almost immediately after deputy attorney general Todd Blanche announced the justice department was releasing 3m additional pages of files related to Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, Fox News published an exclusive interview with him seeking to shape what Americans could expect to find in the files.
After reviewing years of Epstein’s correspondence, Blanche said, the justice department determined that there was nothing in them in which Epstein said anything criminally implicating Trump.
“In none of these communications, even when doing his best to disparage President Trump, did Epstein suggest President Trump had done anything criminal or had any inappropriate contact with any of his victims,” Blanche told Fox News. The story highlighted several emails in the release in which Epstein disparages Trump.
