Even before the Department of Justice’s release of a major collection of files pertaining to late billionaire sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, lawmakers were concerned they would be heavily censored. While it remains unclear why the files were being deleted, the news has already sparked major outcry, with some accusing the Trump administration’s Justice Department of trying to protect Trump, who was once close friends with Epstein. The Justice Department has yet to offer an explanation why the other missing images were removed. The president is known to have been close with Epstein as recently as the early 2000s, though he’s said they later had a falling out. More on the Epstein files: The Epstein Files Release Website Is Completely Busted