The files, posted to the department’s website, include some of the several million pages of records that officials said were withheld from an initial release of documents in December.

They were disclosed under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the law enacted after months of public and political pressure that requires the government to open its files on the late financier and his confidant and onetime girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.

“Today’s release marks the end of a very comprehensive document identification and review process to ensure transparency to the American people and compliance with the act,” Blanche said at a news conference announcing the disclosure.

The department had said at year’s end that it still had more than five million pages to review and needed to re-assign hundreds of lawyers to do so, drawing criticism ​from some members of Congress that the ‌administration’s slow pace had violated the law.

President Donald Trump, who was friends with Epstein in ​the 1990s and early 2000s before they had a falling out years before Epstein’s first conviction, had spent months resisting any release until both Democrats and Republicans in Congress advanced the law over his objections.

The law permitted some redactions, including to protect victims and preserve ‌ongoing investigations. But the files released thus far have been heavily redacted, in some cases entirely so, frustrating ‌lawmakers.

Trump has not been formally accused of any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, and ‌he has denied any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes.

On Friday, Blanche said that no one including Trump, were protected in the release of the Epstein files.

“I can assure that we complied with the statute, we complied with the act,” Blanche told reporters. “We did not protect President Trump. We didn’t protect or not protect anybody.”