This is The Guardian.

5,300 files that have some kind of Trump mention.

You do wonder if the clock is ticking even on here.

Not only does it absolve me, it's the opposite of

what people were hoping, you know, the radical evidence. Association with the world of Epstein,

to be in his orbit is damaging, whether it's a once royal prince or a sitting American president.

Nothing in this absolves anyone.

Another three million documents in the Epstein files have been released with serious questions for a number of public figures. So what next? From the Guardians today in focus,

this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff. Joining me is Jonathan Friedland, Guardian columnist, and host of our sister podcast Politics Weekly America.

Thanks so much for being with us again, Johnny.

So on Friday we had this enormous and sensational release of 3 million files and documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Serious questions in those files, which are still being poured over as we speak,

for people like Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder, Elon Musk, who probably needs no introduction,

Donald Trump, and a number of people here, including Andrew Matt Badden Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew,

and the Labour grandee, Lord Peter Mandelson. But let's talk about Donald Trump, to start with.

The US president says that as a result of these files, he has now been absolved.

What is his justification for that?

Why?

That's because there is nothing in these documents that points to a direct accusation of sexual

misconduct that has proven credible enough

that the authorities felt compelled to investigate it.

Now, I've chose my words quite carefully there.

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