Trump empathizes with Bill Clinton and others ‘innocently’ featured in Epstein document dumps

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President Donald Trump dodged committing to the release of the complete Jeffrey Epstein files, but expressed sympathy on Monday for people identified in photographs with the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender in document tranches released from Epstein’s estate.

The Trump administration failed to meet a legislative deadline on Friday to release the government’s Epstein file in its entirety. The Department of Justice published hundreds of thousands of redacted documents, photographs, and videos on Friday afternoon, but has not specified when the entire file will be made available to the public.

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