{"id":65227,"date":"2026-02-03T06:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/new-epstein-files-fail-to-quell-outrage-as-advocates-claim-documents-are-being-withheld\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T06:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:58:06","slug":"new-epstein-files-fail-to-quell-outrage-as-advocates-claim-documents-are-being-withheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/new-epstein-files-fail-to-quell-outrage-as-advocates-claim-documents-are-being-withheld\/","title":{"rendered":"New Epstein files fail to quell outrage as advocates claim documents are being withheld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates call for further disclosures after Trump\u2019s justice department released more than 3m files last week<\/p>\n<p>The release of about 3m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> investigative files has failed to quell outrage over justice department officials\u2019 handling of these disclosures, with advocates claiming potentially millions of documents are still being withheld.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s Department of Justice was required to disclose all investigative files by 19 December under The Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA). While the justice department did release some documents on that date, last week\u2019s disclosure came nearly six weeks after this deadline.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/03\/new-epstein-files-advocates-claim-documents-withheld\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates call for further disclosures after Trump\u2019s justice department released more than 3m files last week The release of about 3m Jeffrey Epstein investigative files has failed to quell outrage over justice department officials\u2019 handling of these disclosures, with advocates claiming potentially millions of documents are still being withheld. Donald Trump\u2019s Department of Justice was &#8230; <a title=\"New Epstein files fail to quell outrage as advocates claim documents are being withheld\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/new-epstein-files-fail-to-quell-outrage-as-advocates-claim-documents-are-being-withheld\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New Epstein files fail to quell outrage as advocates claim documents are being withheld\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}