Members of Congress were allowed to view the unredacted Epstein files on Monday. Among the things they’re saying now: Donald Trump is named in the files more than a million times.
And if it’s possible, it gets worse.
“We didn’t want there to be a cover-up, and yet, what I saw today was that there were lots of examples of people’s names being redacted when they were not victims,” Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin told CNN.
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The Justice Department gave access to the files to a bipartisan group that included the two authors of the bill requiring the Justice Department to release its files on the disgraced billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a former Trump BFF who died in jail in 2019 as he was about to face fresh criminal charges related to an extensive sex-trafficking ring that he ran with his girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is now serving time in a Club Fed, and has attorneys working on Trump to give her a presidential pardon.
“Ghislaine Maxwell abused children. It’s unbelievable that the Trump administration moved her to a much cushier prison. If Trump pardons her, it will raise even more questions about his role in this cabal of sex traffickers,” U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said today in a statement posted to social media.
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California Democrat Ro Khanna said in a speech on the House floor today that he and Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican who co-sponsored the bill that Trump signed into law in December requiring the Justice Department to release its trove of Epstein files, had to press the DOJ to release the identities of “six wealthy, powerful men” whose names had been redacted “for no apparent reason.”
The six:
- Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem: the CEO of DP World, a Dubai-based logistics company, and a Temple University alum; Epstein emailed him about, among other things, a “torture video” that he said he “loved.”
- Nicola Caputo: an Italian politician and former member of the European Parliament.
- Leonic Leonov: I can’t find anything about this guy.
- Zurab Mikeladze: another international man of mystery.
- Salvatore Nuara: a former detective with the New York Police Department who was investigated in connection with an escort service.
- Leslie Wexner: billionaire former CEO at Victoria’s Secret, among other places, and early Epstein benefactor.
Massie said Wexner was identified as a co-conspirator by the FBI, which would make it odd that his name would be redacted, unless you understand why.
“This is significant, because Kash Patel testified to Congress that FBI had no evidence of other sex traffickers,” Massie said in a statement posted to social media on Monday, along with an image that he said was “the FBI’s own 2019 document listing Wexner as a co-conspirator in child sex trafficking. It wasn’t unredacted until tonight.”
In 2019, the FBI was identifying co-conspirators; in 2025, the FBI closed its investigation into Epstein, concluding that he was not running a sex-trafficking ring that included other powerful figures.
What lawmakers saw yesterday turned that finding on its head.
“If we found six men that they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those 3 million files,” Khanna said today on the House floor.
“Who are they protecting? Why are they protecting these rich and powerful men, people I call part of the Epstein class? Why are we in a country where there is no elite accountability for people who do the most heinous things?” Khanna said, adding later:
“We need to ask ourselves – are we in America going to have elite accountability? Are we going to call on rich and powerful people who broke the law or cavorted with a pedophile, a convicted pedophile? Are we going to call them to account? Are we going to have prosecutions for billionaires who went to this island and either raped underage girls or saw underage girls being raped and didn’t say anything? Are we going to have investigations?”
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