Senate Dem Claims Trump’s DOJ Told FBI Agents to ‘Flag’ Any Epstein Files Mentioning the President
Ahmad Austin Jr. Jul 18th, 2025, 4:33 pm
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) accused the Department of Justice of telling FBI agents to “flag” any Jeffrey Epstein files that mentioned President Donald Trump.
Durbin, on Friday, published a letter on behalf of Senate Judiciary Democrats demanding clarity on the Epstein case. Last week, Trump’s DOJ published a memo announcing that there was no such thing as a rumored list of Epstein associates. Additionally, the memo concluded that Epstein — who was arrested for child sex trafficking in 2019 — died by suicide while he was incarcerated.
As the senator pointed out in his letter, the claims in the memo were at odds with previous statements by the