5 initial takeaways from DOJ’s release of Epstein documents

 https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5657940-epstein-justice-department-document-dump/

While Trump may have appeared sparingly in the Epstein documents, Clinton showed up in several photographs made public on Friday.

A spokesperson for Clinton said in response that the former president was among those who “knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light.”

“The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton. This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they’ll try and hide forever,” Clinton spokesperson Angel Ureña said in a statement. “So they can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be.”

While Friday’s release featured thousands upon thousands of documents, it was not the entirety of the DOJ’s materials pertaining to Epstein. 

That prompted criticism from Democrats in particular who argued the administration was not in compliance with the law.