Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said President Donald Trump’s name appears “more than a million times” in the unredacted Epstein files, a claim he made in an Axios interview after personally reviewing the documents at the Justice Department. Separately, a New York Times review found that Trump is mentioned more than 38,000 times in the redacted Epstein-related files released publicly by the Justice Department as of early 2026, with his name appearing in over 5,300 individual documents examined by the newspaper.
Raskin reviewed the unredacted materials on Monday alongside Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), and Becca Balint (D-Vt.), as part of lawmakers’ limited access to the files following complaints about extensive and, in some cases, unnecessary redactions in earlier document releases.
According to Raskin, at least one document he reviewed appears to contradict Trump’s repeated public claims that he cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein and expelled him from Mar-a-Lago. The document is a 2009 email exchange between Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, in which Epstein summarized what his lawyers said Trump told them during a phone call.
In that email, Trump is paraphrased and quoted as saying Epstein “was not a member of Mar-a-Lago, but he was a guest at Mar-a-Lago,” and that Epstein had never been asked to leave. Raskin criticized the redaction of this passage, saying it conflicted with Trump’s more recent statements that he removed Epstein from the club.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein and has maintained that he banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago for poaching spa workers. The Epstein files also include testimony from a former Palm Beach police chief, who told the FBI in 2019 that Trump claimed he threw Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago following Epstein’s arrest in the early 2000s and warned authorities that Maxwell was “evil.”
The White House responded to questions by pointing to social media posts from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who accused Rep. Massie of sensationalizing findings and insisted the Justice Department is “hiding nothing.” Blanche argued that repeated appearances of names in the files do not necessarily imply wrongdoing.
Raskin, however, said the issue goes far beyond a single email, noting that the document is “just one memo out of 3 million.” He criticized the limited access provided to lawmakers, arguing that allowing members to review millions of documents on a handful of DOJ computers amounts to a cover-up. Raskin said the unreleased documents are the ones he most wants to see and rejected claims that they are merely duplicative.
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