Democrats declare DOJ has deleted Trump photograph from Epstein information | EUROtoday

The Department of Justice has eliminated not less than 16 information from the Jeffrey Epstein paperwork it launched Friday with none clarification, together with one together with an image of President Donald Trump, as Democrats accused the administration of a “cover-up.”

Trump’s {photograph} appeared a number of occasions among the many hundreds of paperwork, which had been undated and lacked any context.

Among the information that seem to have been faraway from the DOJ’s web site since Friday’s publication is {a photograph} taken of Epstein’s desk or a bureau, with the drawers open.

Inside the drawers is a photograph of a person who seems to be Trump, wearing a white shirt, standing with a gaggle of ladies, together with not less than one who’s carrying a bikini. The identities of the ladies aren’t identified and their faces weren’t redacted within the {photograph}.

Behind the photograph is one other partially obscured picture, the place the faces of Trump, first girl Melania Trump, and Epstein’s confederate, Ghislaine Maxwell, are seen. This photograph seems to have been extensively circulated and options the Trumps earlier than they had been married at Mar-a-Lago in February 2000.

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The file — numbered 468 — was now not seen on the DOJ’s web site Saturday.

Trump has not been accused of any wrongdoing and has stated that he parted methods as associates with Epstein years in the past.

“This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release,” Democrats on the House Oversight Committee wrote on X Saturday. “[Attorney General Pam Bondi] is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.”

Another {photograph} of a credenza, the place a framed image of Trump, Melania, and the intercourse offender is seen, remained on the DOJ’s web site Saturday.

Other paperwork that appeared to have been taken down had been pictures inside a room with a therapeutic massage desk, with nude portraits on the partitions.

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A White House spokesperson advised The Independent that the Trump administration was “the most transparent in history” when contacted for touch upon the obvious elimination of the {photograph} of the president.

“By releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request, and President Trump recently calling for further investigations into Epstein’s Democrat friends, the Trump Administration has done more for the victims than Democrats ever have,” stated Abigail Jackson.

The Department of Justice didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Democrats accused the Trump administration of “one of the biggest cover ups in American history.”

“This is what Susie Wiles meant when she said Trump and Epstein were ‘young, single playboys together,’” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stated in a publish on X.

“And if they’re taking this down, just imagine how much more they’re trying to hide…” he added. “This could be one of the biggest cover ups in American history.”

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Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez of California additionally accused the administration of a “cover-up.”

“Trump’s DOJ appears to be scrubbing any mentions of Trump from the Epstein files after they were already public,” Gomez stated Saturday in a publish on X.

“Every deleted file, every redaction after-the-fact is outrageous and unacceptable. This is an active cover-up, and we need answers,” he added.

There is rising anger amongst survivors of Epstein’s sexual abuse over the information launched Friday as they pushed for extra transparency after a whole bunch of pages of paperwork had been fully redacted.

The Justice Department acknowledged that it will not be releasing the entire paperwork on the December 19 deadline as set out by regulation within the Epstein Files Transparency Act, however that it will launch extra within the subsequent two weeks.

“I knew going into this and just how Trump likes to play his little tactics,” Haley Robson, an Epstein survivor who voted for Trump however says she has come to remorse it, advised The Independent. “I knew with all the obstacles we’ve already rendered and the administration’s flip flop, I already knew that we were not going to see the files as we should be getting them.”

Josh Marcus contributed reporting