House Dem Reveals Truly Astonishing Number Of Trump Mentions In Unredacted Epstein Files | EUROtoday

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Tuesday revealed that he looked for any and all point out of President Donald Trump throughout unredacted variations of the Jeffrey Epstein information supplied to him earlier this week, and mentioned his title “appears more than a million times.”

“I mean, there’s tons of redacted stuff,” Raskin, the highest Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, informed Axios in an interview printed Tuesday, including: “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 lengthy tried to distance himself from Epstein, the late baby intercourse offender who died behind bars of an obvious suicide in 2019 whereas awaiting trial on federal intercourse trafficking prices, however in the end signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into regulation in November.

Members of the House Judiciary Committee got entry to unredacted variations on Monday, when Raskin mentioned he got here away deeply troubled by his preliminary evaluation and that the Justice Department seemed 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 division now faces a deadline to justify its redactions to members of Congress in writing.

Raskin clarified his feedback Tuesday about Trump and the unredacted paperwork in a press release to Axios later that day, explaining: “In the database, I typed in the words ‘Trump,’ ‘Donald or Don’ and it came up with more than a million results.”

He added, “I obviously didn’t have the time to review each one, and I obviously cannot guarantee that every mention of a Donald is Donald Trump as opposed to some other Donald.”

The Maryland Democrat acknowledged that the “database review tool” supplied to members of the House Judiciary Committee — together with Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Becca Balint (D-Vt.) — is “confusing, unreliable, and clunky.”

Raskin additionally famous that “one of the first documents” he got here throughout throughout his evaluation was significantly noteworthy, because it appeared to contradict Trump’s prior claims that he had damaged off his documented friendship with Epstein years sooner than it appears.

The doc in query was a 2009 electronic mail from Epstein to his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, which was itself a forwarded dialog between his legal professionals and attorneys for Trump, which Raskin identified earlier this week whereas talking to reporters.

He defined Monday, “Epstein’s lawyers synopsized and quoted Trump as saying that Jeffrey Epstein was not a member of his club at Mar-a-Lago — but he was a guest at Mar-a-Lago and he had never been asked to leave.”

“And that was redacted for some indeterminate, inscrutable reason,” Raskin continued.

Trump has denied all wrongdoing and claimed he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago after discovering out he “stole people” who labored there. Raskin famous Tuesday that the 2009 change is “just one memo out of 3 million” Epstein information within the DOJ’s possession.

He added that the thousands and thousands of paperwork that haven’t but been publicly launched “are the ones I’d like to see,” dismissing the Trump administration’s claims that these are merely duplicate copies of beforehand shared information: “If they’re duplicative, what’s the problem?”

Raskin continued, “We’ll be the judge of that.”