WASHINGTON, 05 March. - (ANA) - Donald Trump’s administration is set to release 50,000 “missing” documents from the Epstein files.

 

The files, some of which contain allegations against the US president, were said to have undergone a “further review” and are expected to be published by the end of the week.

 

They include notes from an interview a woman gave to the FBI in 2019, when she accused Mr Trump of trying to force her into oral sex in the early 1980s, when she was around 13 years old, after being introduced to Mr Trump by Epstein.

 

The claims have never been substantiated, and there is no evidence that Mr Trump knew Epstein at the time.

 

The US president has long denied knowledge of Epstein’s crimes.

 

After reports of the missing documents emerged last week, Democrats in Congress claimed the US Department of Justice (DoJ) appeared to have “illegally withheld FBI interviews with a survivor”.

 

The DoJ warned last month that some of the files contained “untrue and sensationalist claims” about Mr Trump and had been sent to the FBI before the 2020 election.

 

“To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false, and if they have a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponised against President Trump already,” it said.

 

A spokeswoman for the department told The Wall Street Journal: “47,635 files were offline for further review and should be ready for re-production by the end of the week.”

 

The DoJ is legally required to publish all six million documents it holds on Epstein, with exceptions made to protect the identities of victims and ongoing investigations. It has released just three million, however.

 

Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, was subpoenaed to give evidence before Congress following a motion brought by Nancy Mace, a Republican congresswoman.

 

The move passed the House oversight committee, which is conducting an investigation into Epstein and the handling of the files, by 24 votes to 19 with bipartisan support.

 

Ahead of the vote, Ms Mace accused the attorney general and the DoJ of being “more focused on shielding the powerful than delivering justice”.

 

“We still don’t have the full truth. Videos are missing. Audio is missing. Logs are missing. There are millions more documents out there,” the congresswoman, who in November defied Mr Trump to force a vote on the release of the files, said on social media.

 

In a subsequent post, she declared there was “more to come”.

 

“For months, Attorney General Bondi has been instrumental in orchestrating the White House’s cover-up of the Epstein files, and has failed to comply with our bipartisan subpoena for the release of the complete, unredacted files,” said Robert Garcia, the committee’s top Democrat.

 

“The American people deserve transparency, survivors deserve justice, and we are demanding answers.”

 

Ms Bondi is likely to be questioned on why the DoJ is refusing to release the remaining files, and why it maintains Epstein’s rumoured “client list” does not exist when she claimed last year it was sitting on my desk”.

 

Prominent political figures have appeared before the committee in recent days, including Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, and Bill Clinton, the former president.

 

Both Clintons had been threatened with a possible prison sentence if they defied the subpoena.

 

Howard Lutnick, the US commerce secretary, on Tuesday agreed to appear before the committee, following revelations that he planned to visit Epstein’s island in 2012 after previously claiming to have cut off contact seven years earlier.

 

Democrats have said they want to subpoena Mr Trump, although it is unclear whether this would garner bipartisan support from oversight Republicans.  - (ANA) - 

 

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