Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Claims He Heard ‘from a Pretty Good Source’ That Epstein Files Are Being Scrubbed of Republican Names

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• Mark Epstein, brother of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has alleged that the Epstein files are being edited to remove Republican names

• “The reason they’re going to be releasing the files … is that they’re sabotaging these files,” Mark told NewsNation

• Mark’s comments come shortly after President Donald Trump encouraged House Republicans to vote to release the files

Mark Epstein has claimed that the files on his late brother, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, are allegedly being edited to remove names of Republicans.

In a phone interview with NewsNation on Monday, Nov. 18, Mark claimed he had been told by an unnamed source that names of conservative politicians were being redacted from the long-awaited Epstein files. Mark’s comments come shortly after President Donald Trump encouraged House Republicans to vote to release the files, a shocking reversal from his previous opposition to do so.

Mark claimed that the Trump administration’s sudden shift is because the files are being edited so that they are no longer incriminating for Republicans in power.

“I’ve been recently told, the reason they’re going to be releasing the files and the reason for the flip is that they’re sabotaging these files,” Mark said, and alleged that Trump administration officials are “scrubbing the files to take Republican names out.”

“That’s what I was told, by a pretty good source,” he added.

Also during the interview, Mark alleged that his brother had compromising information about Trump in 2016, the year Trump was running for his first term in office. Mark claimed Jeffrey told him around that time that the information he had on the candidates would be damning enough to “cancel the election.”

“He didn’t tell me what he knew,” Mark said, “but Jeffrey definitely had dirt on Trump.”

Mark’s comments come after months of public scrutiny of the Trump Administration for delaying the release of the files related to Jeffrey’s crimes and death, and increased calls for transparency.

Multiple reports since Trump’s second inauguration have claimed that the president’s name appears in the files. Jeffrey and Trump had a documented friendship for years prior to the disgraced financier’s arrest and downfall.

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Jeffrey was arrested in July 2019 and charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.

One month later, while he was awaiting trial at Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, Jeffrey died in an apparent suicide.

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