Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has revealed why there have not been any charges brought following the release of more documents from the Epstein files.
As January came to a close, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped lots more information connected to Jeffrey Epstein and his nefarious actions before his 2019 death.
The DOJ released around 3.5 million files that included over 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. It ultimately left the public with many questions.
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One of the most pertinent is: why haven’t there been any charges or arrests of the people pictured or named in the Epstein files?
Speaking in an interview on February 1 on CNN’s State of the Union, the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche addressed this.
He said that the DOJ is not considering bringing any additional charges related to Epstein, despite the releases over recent months.He said: “I can’t talk about any investigations, but I will say the following, which is that in July, the Department of Justice said that we had reviewed the files, the Epstein files, and there was nothing in there that allowed us to prosecute anybody.
“The entire world can look at and see if we got it wrong.”
Blanche did admit that the materials released do contain disturbing material, such as photographs, emails and correspondence, but emphasized that this did not meet the threshold for prosecution.
Blanche added: “There’s a lot of horrible photographs that appear to be taken by Mr. Epstein or people around him, but that doesn’t allow us necessarily to prosecute somebody.”
Being mentioned or photographed in the Epstein files is not enough to suggest wrongdoing.
Blanche also called on people to temper their focus on Donald Trump and said that, though he is mentioned more than 1,000 times in the documents, many of the allegations involving Trump came from anonymous tips or unverifiable sources.He added: “It turns out, there was a number of claims made by either … anonymous people or somebody, for example, calling and saying, ‘I used to have a roommate who told me this sensational story.’
« So just, you know, obviously that’s not something that can be really investigated, right? ‘What’s your roommate’s name? I don’t remember,’ So that’s what that’s about.”
Trump has previously denied any knowledge of Epstein’s sex crimes and claimed that his relationship with Epstein had soured.
In a statement shared when the files were made public, the US Justice Department reiterated Trump’s denial of these accusations.
The statement said: “Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. »
Jay-Z’s name has come up in some of the documents released as part of the Epstein Files.
Another batch of files in the Epstein case have been released by the Department of Justice this week, and the millions of pages mention several recognisable names, including US presidents Donald Trump as well as Bill Clinton, and even rapper Jay-Z.
Among the documents is a report dated to October 2019 concerning Jeffrey Epstein, described as a file on ‘child sex trafficking’. In the horrible report, the victim, whose identifying details were redacted for legal reasons, described how she had allegedly been abused by ‘Jeffrey Epstein and others’ in the early 1990s.
It described ‘parties’, and the victim had contacted the FBI and had ‘described the abuse occurred in parties’. She alleges in the document that she was sexually abused by Epstein, as well as other people, claims that she was abducted, and believes that she was drugged.Jay-Z is mentioned in the documents as having been present on one occasion after the victim was abducted.
The document does not make any allegation or claim that Jay-Z directly participated in the alleged abuse, only that he was present when she awoke.
It says: « In approximately 1996, [REDACTED] resided with [REDACTED] in [REDACTED]. An unknown man abducted [REDACTED] from her home whence she later awoke in the presence of Harvey Weinstein and Shawn Carter (Jay-Z). »
The disturbing account goes on to describe Weinstein allegedly sexually assaulting her with his fingers, before saying that she ‘believed she was in Epstein’s mansion in Florida’.
Weinstein has previously been convicted of separate rape charges after allegations of sex abuse dating back to the 1970s were levelled against him. He is currently serving a prison sentence for those offences.In the document, the victim went on to estimated that she had been abducted ‘seven times’, and that each time she had woken up ‘in an opulent indoor setting’.
The report says that the victim said she had ‘suffered from sex abuse on multiple of those occasions, in which Epstein participated’.
She said that she ‘believed she was drugged, clouding her memory’, and claimed that the alleged drugging was ‘frequently performed by persons assigned as handlers, whom she described as persons who established friendships with the victims.’
Several other big names have featured in the latest slew of harrowing documents released from the Epstein Files, amid worldwide shock and outrage.
One disturbing image shows Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, kneeling on his hands and knees over an unidentified woman who is lying on the floor.
The White House and the Department of Justice has denied sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump after they disappeared from the Epstein files.
More files relating to the convicted sex offender were released on Friday (January 30), which included photos of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, kneeling over a woman.
President Trump was also featured in the latest batch of files, with a series of unverified tips about the president that had been collated by the FBI in August 2025.
One claim stated the current POTUS forced a 13 or 14-year-old girl to perform oral sex on him decades ago – something which has been immediately shut down by the White House.
In a statement published alongside the DOJ on Friday, the White House said: « Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right 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 weaponized against President Trump already.”
The file had been temporarily removed from the DOJ website ‘due to overload’, but has since been restored, The Telegraph was told.
The claim was made by an ‘unidentified female friend’ of the alleged victim, with the complaint stating the teenager claimed she bit Trump during oral sex.
The unverified claim states the girl was ‘allegedly hit in the face after she laughed’ about it.
Following the release of the Epstein files, the White House said some of the documents ‘may include fake or falsely submitted images, documents or videos’ as the Trump administration released ‘everything that was sent to the FBI by the public’.
It’s worth noting just because an individual is named in the files, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are guilty of any wrongdoing.Friday’s release of the Epstein files ‘marks the end’ of the DOJ’s obligation to be transparent regarding the convicted sex offender, though the Democrats have claimed there are more files, documents and photos to be made public.
Democrat Robert Garcia said: « Donald Trump and his Department of Justice have now made it clear that they intend to withhold roughly 50% of the Epstein files, while claiming to have fully complied with the law. This is outrageous and incredibly concerning.
« The oversight committee subpoena directs Pam Bondi to release all the files to the committee, while protecting survivors. »
The politician continued: « We are demanding the names of Epstein’s co-conspirators and the men and pedophiles who abused women and girls. We will begin a thorough review of this latest limited production, but let’s be clear: our work and investigation are just getting started. »
