Trump says he will 'release everything' related to Epstein Files amid reports of FBI redacting his name

Hours after an explosive report revealed that the FBI “redacted” US President Donald Trump’s name from the Epstein Files , the American leader said that he wants to release “everything" about the document revealing the ill-deeds of convicted sex offender and British financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The proclamation from the president came amid growing backlash even among Republicans over his administration’s reluctance to release the files. Trump’s recent comment also marked a flip-flop from his previous assertion when he questioned the  “fascination" of his supporters with the case, dubbing it “pretty boring stuff“.

During an interview with Newsmax, the president also gave an insight into Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s conversation with the deceased sex offender’s convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, which went on for nine hours at a federal prison estate in Florida.

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“I think [Blanche] probably wanted to know, you know, just to get a feeling of it, because we’d like to release everything, but we don’t want people to get hurt that shouldn’t be hurt,” Trump told Newsmax host Rob Finnerty. “I want to release everything,” the president declared. “I just don’t want people to get hurt.”

BREAKING: Trump says he wants to release 'everything' related to Epstein files…

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So Obama didn’t “write them” and it’s not a “hoax,” after the FBI redacted his name?

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— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) August 2, 2025

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“Todd went in, and I think he just wants to make sure that innocent people aren’t hurt,” Trump added. However, the president maintained that he hasn’t spoken with his deputy attorney general about Maxwell and doesn’t know if there are plans to release a transcript of the interview.

FBI reportedly redacted Trump’s name from Epstein Files

While the Trump administration often boasted about being “transparent”, an explosive report revealed that the president’s name was redacted from documents surrounding the investigation into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as the administration prepared for their potential public release.

According to a report by Bloomberg, an investigator in the case reportedly blacked out Trump’s name and the names of other high-profile figures, claiming that the information constituted an “unwarranted invasion of privacy". In a previous report from The Wall Street Journal, it was mentioned that Attorney General Pam Bondi told the president that his name was in the files back in May.

The matter garnered public anger in July after the Department of Justice and the FBI declined to release any additional documents. Public scrutiny of Trump’s connections to Epstein and the financier’s crimes and circumstances of his death intensified soon after the memo was released.

In February this year, the White House handed over binders of largely publicly available Epstein-related documents to several far-right influencers in an apparent effort to prove that the administration was being transparent about the files. At that time, Bondi called the release of the documents the “first phase” and went on to tell Fox News that other documents, including the so-called “client list”, are sitting on her desk for review.

However, in the July memo, the FBI and DoJ backtracked and said that there is “no basis to revisit the disclosure of those materials” despite demands from MAGA supporters and allies for full accountability. Hence, it remains unclear whether the Trump administration would ever release the full Epstein Files.