A rebellion inside Trump’s Republican Party forced him to sign off on a law mandating the release of all the documents. A first batch was made public last Friday amid fierce criticism that the Justice Department was deliberately slow-walking the release and excluding any references to Trump. The latest slew of documents contains 8000 files, including hundreds of videos or audio recordings. He has said they fell out when Epstein “stole” young women working in the spa at his Florida golf club. Some of the references to Trump in the documents are impossible to verify and there are no indications of criminal behaviour.

Source: New Zealand Herald December 23, 2025 17:59 UTC