The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee reviewed unredacted versions of the Epstein files Monday, and he came away deeply troubled, he told reporters afterward.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said the DOJ appeared to be in clear violation of a provision of the Epstein Files Transparency Act that both requires survivors’ privacy not be compromised in any way, and also prohibits the DOJ from redacting the names of Epstein’s accomplices.

“I was able to determine, at least I believe, that there were tons of unnecessary redactions in addition to the failure to redact the names of victims. And so that’s troubling to us,” he said. “I saw the names of lots of people who were redacted for mysterious or baffling or inscrutable reasons.”

Asked for an example, Raskin said he reviewed an email sent from Epstein to co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell that was itself a forwarded conversation between Epstein’s lawyers and lawyers for Donald Trump.

“Epstein’s lawyers synopsized and quoted Trump as saying that Jeffrey Epstein was not a member of his club at Mar-a-Lago — but he was a guest at Mar-a-Lago and he had never been asked to leave. And that was redacted for some…inscrutable reason.”

Raskin then noted that the account undercuts Trump’s own repeated claims to have asked Epstein to leave and proceeded to accuse the DOJ under Trump of covering up the crimes of powerful people.

“I think the Department of Justice has been in coverup mode for many months and has been trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug,” he warned, noting he’d only had time this morning to review 30 or 40 documents of the three million that have so far been released.

Even then, the three million documents only account for around half of the DOJ’s entire file on Jeffrey Epstein.

“We need to be investigating the money, we need to be investigating the organizational hierarchy,” said Raskin. “There’s no way you run a billion dollar international child sex trafficking ring with just two people committing crimes.”