Listen to this articleHeavy redactions including many entirely blacked-out pages in the Epstein documents have stoked scepticism over whether their disclosure will silence conspiracy theories of a high-level cover-up. The DOJ posted around 11,000 links to new documents online, but some of them appeared to lead nowhere. The Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), passed nearly unanimously by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump, mandated the complete release of the Epstein files by Friday of last week. “Instead of transparency, the Trump administration released a tiny fraction of the files and blacked out massive portions of what little they provided,” Schumer said in a statement. “We are not redacting information around President Trump,” Blanche, a former personal lawyer to the president, told NBC’s Meet the Press.

Source: Bangkok Post December 23, 2025 18:05 UTC