The largest release of Epstein-related documents yet from the justice department included some notable messages and several mentions of Trump.

But this week, the documents released by Trump’s own Justice Department—including flight logs and emails—told a different story. Federal prosecutors determined in January 2020 that Trump had been a passenger on the notorious private jet owned by Jeffrey Epstein—who would later be charged with sex trafficking—far more often than they had realized.

The ease of recovering information that was not properly redacted digitally suggests that at least some of the documents released by the Justice Department were hastily censored.

Epstein files after publishing thousands of files over the weekend that included many redactions—with some pages entirely blacked out. The department attributed the delay to needing to ensure the privacy of victims and their families,

Hackers have exposed heavily redacted information from the latest 11,034 documents in the Epstein files, released on Monday.

The massive size of the Epstein files — perhaps more than a million pages — has created problems for the Justice Department.

A new batch of Jeffrey Epstein criminal case files were released on Dec. 23, with several new mentions of President Donald Trump. What to know about him:

A dozen U.S. senators are calling on the Justice Department's watchdog to examine the department's failure to release all records pertaining to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by last Friday's congressionally mandated deadline,