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In one, he's shirtless in a hot tub with someone whose face is blacked out, but is described by the DOJ as a victim.
Another shows him swimming with Maxwell and others.
One shows him on a plane with a young woman draped over him.
Once again, her identity is redacted.
So all of this led CNN commentator Scott Jennings to say that
he thinks these should really be called the Clinton files.
But Clinton's spokesperson said that he cut ties with Epstein before these crimes were widely known.
Now, for President Trump's part, despite a lot of viral claims that you may see circulating on social media, I would say that his mentions are fairly minimal.
There's a handwritten phone message noting a missed call from him.
There's also a book of his on Epstein's shelf and one photo that was initially released but later removed from the DOJ site until they put it back.
saying that they determined that it didn't reveal any victim identities.
It shows a desk with an open drawer with pictures, including Trump with Epstein, Melania Trump, and Maxwell.
And then there was also another photo of Trump surrounded by women, but we want to stress these were adult women in the photo.
No documents accuse Trump or Clinton of sexual misconduct or knowledge of Epstein's crimes, and the same does go for a lot of other celebrities that we see in these photos, people like Bill Gates, for example.
Yeah, you're hearing a lot of critics saying that the DOJ violated the law by not releasing everything at once.
So over 680 pages are completely blacked out and at least 15 images, some that are related to Trump, vanished from the site overnight.
Senate Democrats are accusing the DOJ of trying to protect Trump here, but Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch has strongly denied that.
He said that these redactions are to protect the over 1,200 victim identities.
The White House, meanwhile, is also pushing back hard.
They say this is unprecedented transparency more than any other prior administration and that these rolling releases are necessary due to the sheer volume of records and to protect victims.