The US Department of Justice published this Friday thousands of files of the pedophile case Jeffrey Epsteinincluding images of former President Bill Clinton reclining in a jacuzzi and photographs of the late financier alongside entertainment figures such as Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson.
In one of the images released by the Department of Justice (DOJ), Clinton appears relaxing in a jacuzzi, with his arms behind his head, accompanied by another person whose face was censored.
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Photograph without a specific date of shooting, published by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) within the files of the case of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, showing former United States President Bill Clinton in a jacuzzi, accompanied by another person whose face was covered. (EFE/ United States Department of Justice)
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White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt was one of the first to share the photograph on her X account, where she reacted with a message of astonishment: “My God!”.
The declassified documents include at least five other images of the former Democratic president. In two of them he appears with Epstein and in others he is seen at a party with the British singer-songwriter. Mick Jaggerwithout the presence of the financier in the latter.
Photograph without a specific date of shooting, published by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) within the files of the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein case, where he appears posing with the singer Michael Jackson. (EFE/ United States Department of Justice)
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The US Justice Department published a total of 3,965 files, with an approximate size of 3 gigabytes, divided into four new data sets.
Most are documents in PDF format, as well as a video file and several individual images, some of them integrated into multi-page files.
Authorities stressed that the sensitive nature of the case has forced each document to be reviewed and censored to protect private information and the identity of the victims.
For this reason, experts and observers warn that the full publication of the files may not provide substantial new elements about the network of relationships of Epstein, who died by suicide in prison, according to authorities, after being convicted of sexual abuse and prostitution of minors.
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Trump, who was initially reluctant to support the release of the documents, ended up signing the law after seeing broad support from Congress.
The president appears mentioned on several occasions in the files related to Epstein, with whom he was a friend before claiming that he broke off relations in 2004, years before the first formal accusation against the financier.
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For his part, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche warned this Friday that it will not be possible to publish all the documents required by law at once due to their volume, and anticipated that the Department of Justice plans to release “several hundred thousand more” of files in the coming weeks.
