The Justice Department’s second-highest-ranking official said Friday that there has been “no effort” to redact President Donald Trump’s name from the release of records connected to federal investigations into convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche made the remarks during an interview with ABC News, responding to questions from Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas about whether all documents referencing Trump will be made public as the department prepares to release hundreds of thousands of records in the coming weeks.

“Assuming it’s consistent with the law, yes,” Blanche said. “There’s no effort to hold anything back because there’s the name Donald J. Trump or anybody else’s name — Bill Clinton’s name, Reid Hoffman’s name. There’s no effort to redact the names of famous men and women associated with Epstein.”

When pressed on whether any orders had been issued to DOJ personnel to withhold or redact materials involving Trump, Blanche rejected the suggestion and accused Democratic lawmakers of selectively using materials from Epstein’s estate to portray the president negatively.

“President Trump has said from the beginning that he expects all files that can be released to be released, and that’s exactly what we’re doing,” Blanche said.

The interview took place just hours before the department released its first batch of thousands of documents. The initial release contained little material related to Trump but included photographs of former President Bill Clinton, which were highlighted on social media by DOJ and White House officials despite lacking additional context.

A spokesperson for Clinton criticized the department’s handling of the release, accusing officials of selectively disclosing the images and denying they showed any wrongdoing by the former president.

“The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton,” spokesperson Angel Urena said in a statement. “They can release as many grainy, 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton.”

“Everyone — especially MAGA — expects answers, not scapegoats,” the statement added.