Overview
- At a House hearing, Justice Secretary Pam Bondi defended publishing roughly three million pages and acknowledged that some victims’ names were mistakenly posted and then removed.
- Democrats alleged a cover‑up through excessive redactions and missed deadlines; Bondi insulted members, avoided engaging survivors present, and faced criticism from some Republicans as well.
- FBI interview notes released in the trove recount a 2006 call in which Donald Trump told a Palm Beach officer “thank God you’re stopping him,” contradicting his past denials of prior knowledge.
- Another FBI summary quotes a prison staffer describing a staged decoy “body” to divert media on the day Epstein died, a claim absent from official death records and not independently verified.
- International fallout is growing, with Germany’s Green party urging a federal review to determine whether German officials are named in the files.