WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi has released a list of roughly 300 politicians and prominent individuals named in the Jeffrey Epstein files, telling Congress that the Department of Justice has now made public all documents it was legally required to disclose.

Bondi, along with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee, explaining that privileged material is still being withheld but that all required records tied to the Epstein case have been released.

“The Department released all ‘records, documents, communications and investigative materials in the possession of the Department’ that ‘relate to’ any of nine different categories,” Bondi and Blanche wrote.

Among the 300 names listed are President Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Vice President Kamala Harris, along with celebrities and business leaders such as Prince Harry, Woody Allen, Mark Zuckerberg, Bruce Springsteen, Elon Musk, and others.

The DOJ emphasized that being named in the files does not imply wrongdoing or even direct contact with Epstein. Some individuals had extensive email contact with Epstein or his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, while others were mentioned only in passing in documents or press-related material unrelated to the core investigation.

The release comes after the DOJ faced a Dec. 19 deadline under the Epstein Files Transparency Act to make public all records tied to Epstein. The files include information about organizations allegedly linked to Epstein’s trafficking and financial operations, as well as internal DOJ communications related to the investigation of him and his associates.

What stands out is that the Trump administration is choosing sunlight over secrecy. Instead of burying uncomfortable names, Bondi’s DOJ is laying out the facts and letting the public see what’s there — and what isn’t. Transparency doesn’t pick sides, and that’s exactly the point.

For a case that’s fueled speculation for years, this move finally puts documents on the table and rumors to the test. And when government opens the books instead of locking them away, that’s a win for accountability — and a reminder that truth is always better than cover-ups.