{"id":38184,"date":"2025-12-21T23:59:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/us-justice-department-restores-photo-featuring-trump-from-epstein-files\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:59:36","slug":"us-justice-department-restores-photo-featuring-trump-from-epstein-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/us-justice-department-restores-photo-featuring-trump-from-epstein-files\/","title":{"rendered":"US justice department restores photo featuring Trump from Epstein files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Department says image was flagged by prosecutors before determining it posed no risk to survivors of late sex offender<\/p>\n<p>The US justice department said on Sunday it had restored an image it had removed a day earlier from the public release of investigative files related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> after concluding that the photograph, which included within it a photo of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>, posed no risk of public exposure to victims of the late convicted sex offender.<\/p>\n<p>The justice department said the image had been flagged by federal prosecutors in New York for potentially exposing victims of Epstein. Its unexplained removal on Saturday triggered a chorus of accusations from Democrats about evident political interference in favor of the president, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/18\/trump-epstein-friendship\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former friend<\/a> of Epstein.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/21\/epstein-files-photos-removed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department says image was flagged by prosecutors before determining it posed no risk to survivors of late sex offender The US justice department said on Sunday it had restored an image it had removed a day earlier from the public release of investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein after concluding that the photograph, which included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 18:25:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}