The Ministry of Justice is said to have informed Trump about this already in May this year, but at the same time said that they do not plan to disclose any more documents from the investigation.
The decision not to disclose more Epstein documents has caused great controversy in the USA, both among the population and the country's ruling politicians. On Tuesday, the US House of Representatives was closed, according to Speaker Mike Johnson, just to stop attempts by the Democrats to debate and vote on publishing classified documents in the Epstein investigation.
”New false news”
Many other high-profile names are also said to have been in the documents, according to a source to WSJ as many as a hundred. However, being mentioned in the documents does not necessarily mean that one has done anything wrong or criminal, emphasizes the newspaper.
This is new false news, just like the previous article in The Wall Street Journal, responds the White House press spokesperson Steven Cheung to the information.
The article he is referring to is about the publication of a "dirty" letter that Trump is said to have sent to Jeffrey Epstein on his 50th birthday.
Epstein, who took his life in a prison cell in New York in 2019 while awaiting trial, exploited minors sexually hundreds of times over more than a decade and targeted vulnerable girls as young as 14 years old.
Hear Ghislaine Maxwell
On the same day, the House of Representatives' Justice Committee formally summons Epstein's accomplice and friend Ghislaine Maxwell for questioning on August 11, reports NBC News. The public's interest in the case is great, writes the committee's chairman James Comer in the summons to Maxwell.
”It is absolutely necessary for Congress to exercise oversight over the federal government's application of laws against sex trafficking in general and specifically how it handles the investigation and prosecution against you and Mr. Epstein”, writes Comer.
Maxwell was convicted of helping the financier to sexually exploit minors. The questioning will take place at the institution where she is serving her sentence.
