The United States Department of Justice announced this Wednesday that it has received from the FBI and a New York prosecutor's office nearly one million new documents allegedly related to the case of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, which it will review before making them public.

“We have lawyers working tirelessly to review and make the legally required redactions to protect the victims and we will release the documents as soon as possible. Due to the large volume of material, this process could take a few more weeks,” he detailed in a message on social media.

A law passed by Congress last November required the Trump Administration to release all unclassified documentation on the Epstein case by Friday, December 19. Epstein died by suicide in prison in 2019.

The Justice Department, however, only released a portion of the files that day, including several photos of former Democratic President Bill Clinton with Epstein, arguing that the amount of information was too large and that it needed time to review all the content, a move that drew criticism from the Democratic opposition and victims.

In a new batch released on Monday, Trump's name appears repeatedly. He allegedly traveled several times on the financier's private plane, but there is no evidence that he participated in his sex crimes.

According to the Justice Department, led by Attorney General Pam Bondi, the FBI and The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has discovered "more than one million additional documents, possibly related to the Jeffrey Epstein case." The department pledged to review them and continue "fully complying with federal law and President Trump's order to release the files." Initially, Trump did not support the release of Epstein's documents, with whom he maintained a friendship until 2004, long before he was accused of soliciting prostitution of a minor.But the president had to backtrack and sign the law after seeing the strong support it had in Congress. EFE