Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Tuesday revealed that he searched for any and all mention of President Donald Trump across unredacted versions of the Jeffrey Epstein files provided to him earlier this week, and said his name “appears more than a million times.”
“I mean, there’s tons of redacted stuff,” Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, told Axios in an interview published Tuesday, adding: “And [Trump’s] name, I think I put his name, and it appears more than a million times. So it’s all over the place.”
Trump has long tried to distance himself from Epstein, the late child sex offender who died behind bars of an apparent suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, but ultimately signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law in November.
Members of the House Judiciary Committee were given access to unredacted versions on Monday, when Raskin said he came away deeply troubled by his initial review and that the Justice Department appeared to be in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
A provision notably prohibits the DOJ from redacting the names of Epstein’s accomplices. The department now faces a deadline to justify its redactions to members of Congress in writing.
