Epstein files live updates: Trump claims docs ‘absolve’ him as top DOJ official says the ‘review is over’

Lord Peter Mandelson said he has resigned from his membership of the Labour Party as he does not wish to “cause further embarrassment” over his links to Jeffrey Epstein.

The announcement comes at the end of a weekend of growing pressure over his relationship with the convicted sex offender.

It follows the release of more than three million documents published by the US Department of Justice relating to Epstein on Friday.

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Elon Musk, who turned up at least a few times in Friday’s document release, posted on X Sunday, claiming that “nobody has fought harder” than he has for the release.

“Nobody has fought harder for full release of the Epstein files and prosecutions of those who abused children more than I did, knowing full well that the legacy media, far-left propagandists and those who are actually guilty would:

1. Admit nothing

2. Deny everything

3. Make counter-accusations against me

Musk was mentioned in email exchanges in 2012 and 2013 in which he discussed visiting Epstein’s infamous Caribbean island compound. But it’s not immediately clear if the island visits took place.

He has maintained that he repeatedly turned down the disgraced financier’s overtures. “Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED,” he posted on X in 2025.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that while there are some documents that have still not been released, “this review is over.”

He also addressed complaints by lawmakers and survivors who criticized the latest release of docs as insufficient and marred by redaction failures, ABC News reported.

He urged Rep Thomas Massie and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who he said were “quick to complain,” to arrange to review unredacted files at DOJ.

“We have nothing to hide,” he added. “We never did and our doors are open.”

Rep Massie posted a response on X with a screenshot of his request.

“We sent the letter Friday,” he wrote.

House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday where Kristen Welker pressed him about Trump’s name being mentioned thousands of times in the files.

“President Trump’s name appears throughout the Epstein files,” she said. “Do you have any outstanding questions about the relationship between President Trump and Epstein?’

“I do not,” he replied.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that the DOJ’s review of the Epstein files has concluded.

In an interview with ABC News' This Week anchor George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, Blanche explained that while there are some documents that have still not been released, “this review is over.”

He also addressed complaints by lawmakers and survivors who criticized the latest release of docs as insufficient and marred by redaction failures, ABC News reported.

Blanche said the DOJ is working to “immediately rectify” any instance identified by survivors or counsel, noting it only affected “about .001%” of materials.

Blanche also responded in his ABC interview to Rep Thomas Massie and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who he said were “quick to complain,” adding that there is “no way” they have reviewed all the materials.

He said lawmakers could arrange to review unredacted files at DOJ.

“We have nothing to hide,” he added. “We never did and our doors are open.”

Gloria Allred, a lawyer who has represented 27 of Epstein’s victims, is urging the Met Police to reopen a probe into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after he featured in the latest release of Epstein files.

There were pictures appearing to show Andrew on all fours leaning over a woman. It also appeared that he had exchanged emails with Epstein about a “beautiful” Russian woman, and invited him to Buckingham Palace.

Meanwhile, a second woman has claimed she was sent by Epstein to the UK to have a sexual encounter with Andrew in 2010. No evidence has been produced in support of this latest allegation.

“The Metropolitan Police should reopen their investigation of Andrew. In addition, Andrew should volunteer to speak to Congress, even though he has denied that he has committed any crime,” she told the Mail on Sunday.

“He should do this to help the survivors learn what he observed and what was going on at the crime scene. The crime scene was every residence of Jeffrey Epstein, and Andrew stayed with Epstein at a number of his homes.”

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Attorneys for Epstein survivors say the recent document release exposed the names for the survivors.

“As survivors, we should never be the ones named, scrutinized, and re-traumatized while Epstein’s enablers continue to benefit from secrecy,” a statement from 20 survivors said. “Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous.”

“It is without question that a significant piece of Epstein and [his convicted associate Ghislaine] Maxwell’s vast sex trafficking operation was to provide young women and girls to other wealthy and powerful individuals,” said Sigrid McCawley, a partner with Boies Schiller Flexner, a firm representing survivors of the scheme, according to The Guardian.

McCawley added: “Those who find themselves entangled in the mire of newly released information, no doubt, will play the deny and distance card, but that doesn’t change the fact that this is exactly how the sex trafficking operation worked.”

International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry, couldn’t avoid questions relating to ICE and the Jeffrey Epstein files at a news conference in Milan on Sunday, the Associated Press reported.

Coventry said it was not the IOC’s place to comment on the issues but when pressed admitted it was “sad” that such stories were deflecting attention away from the upcoming Olympics.

“I think anything that is distracting from these Games is sad, right? But we’ve learned over the many years … there’s always been something that has taken the lead, leading up to the Games,” Coventry said. “Whether it has been Zika, COVID, there has always been something.

The latest batch of files include emails from 2003 between Casey Wasserman, the head of the Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, and Ghislaine Maxwell.

In response to a question about Wasserman, Coventry said: “We didn’t discuss it yesterday and I believe Mr. Wasserman has put out his statement and we now have nothing further to add.”

Coventry was elected just over 10 months ago and is the first female IOC president.

The upcoming Olympics run from Feb. 6-22. U.S. Vice President JD Vance will lead an American delegation to the Milan Cortina Games and attend Friday’s opening ceremony.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche signaled on CNN Sunday morning that the DOJ will not pursue new charges related to the Epstein case following the latest batch of files.

When asked as a result of the release, Blanche pointed to earlier reviews and the scope of the newly released materials.

“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,” he said. “The entire world can look at and see if we got it wrong.”

He continued: “There’s a lot of correspondence, there’s a lot of emails, there’s a lot of photographs. 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.”

Rep. Ro Khanna, a member of the bipartisan pair leading the effort to compel the Justice Department to release files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, said on Sunday that only about half of the Department’s trove has been made public and warned that there would be consequences if the rest of the documents do not come out soon.

“They've released at best half the documents. But even those shock the conscience of this country. I mean, you have some of the most wealthy individuals, tech leaders, finance leaders, politicians, all implicated in some way, having emailed them, wanting to go to Epstein's island [even] knowing that Epstein was a pedophile,” Khanna said on NBC’s Meet the Press.

“This is the most documents that we have seen released so far in history. But it is not good enough,” the California congressman continued, warning: “If we don't get the remaining files ... and if the survivors are not happy, then Thomas Massie and I are prepared to move on impeachment or contempt.”

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