Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., participates successful a subcommittee proceeding of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, D.C., July 23, 2025.
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Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., successful a statement connected Saturday criticized the merchandise of the archetypal trove of documents related to the precocious convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein arsenic incomplete and predominately "recycled contented already made disposable to the public."
Lee, a subordinate of the House Committee connected Oversight and Government Reform, past period filed the motion to compel President Donald Trump's Justice Department to merchandise files related to Epstein.
The Justice Department gave Congress the archetypal batch of documents connected Friday, to comply with a subpoena issued by the committee earlier this month.
But Lee said Saturday that conscionable 3 percent of the 33,295 pages of documents turned implicit to Congress contained caller information, according to Oversight Committee Democrats' archetypal review.
"The remaining 97% of pages included accusation antecedently released by the Department of Justice, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement oregon the Palm Beach County State Attorney's office," Lee said successful the statement.
It wasn't instantly wide what accusation the documents contained and what, oregon however much, was redacted.
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Lee said that the lone caller disclosure successful the tranche of documents was less than 1,000 pages of formation determination logs of Epstein's level from 2000 done 2014.
"Trump's DOJ is pretending to respond to the subpoena," she said successful the statement. "The released Epstein documents are mostly thousands of pages of recycled contented already made disposable to the public."
Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the ranking subordinate connected the House Oversight Committee, besides slammed the archetypal papers release.
"DOJ's constricted disclosure raises much questions than answers and makes wide that the White House is not funny successful justness for the victims oregon the truth," Garcia said successful a statement posted connected X connected Saturday.
A surface astir the Jeffrey Epstein files is displayed astatine Times Square successful New York City, U.S., July 23, 2025.
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A spokesperson for the Republican House Oversight Committee said Friday that "the production contains thousands of pages of documents."
"The Committee intends to make these records public aft thorough review to ensure immoderate victims' recognition and kid intersexual maltreatment worldly are redacted," the spokesperson said.
The Epstein files person been a thorn successful Republicans' broadside successful caller weeks arsenic galore Republicans — including immoderate of Trump's strongest supporters — person repeatedly urged the medication to travel done connected its run committedness and merchandise documents connected to the case.
The merchandise of the archetypal batch of files to Congress connected Friday came connected the aforesaid time that the Justice Department released new transcripts from its interrogation past period with Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Maxwell, who is presently serving a 20-year situation sentence, told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche that she did not cognize of immoderate wrongdoing by Trump successful transportation with Epstein, according to the transcripts, which besides amusement that she praised the president.
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