Which specific pages in the DOJ Epstein release show the quoted passages from EFTA00020518 and EFTA00020508 and how are they redacted?
Executive summary
The sources reviewed do not provide the granular, page-level mapping requested: none of the reporting or the DOJ landing pages in the provided material identifies which exact PDF page numbers contain the quoted passages attributed to EFTA00020518 or EFTA00020508, nor do they reproduce those quoted passages in a way that allows verification of how they were redacted [1] [2] [3]. Reporting does however establish that EFTA00020518 is an FBI case file (October 2020) that includes an allegation involving former President Trump and that the DOJ’s massive release contains widespread redactions—mostly of names and contact information—and that the department has removed and reworked thousands of documents after victims flagged insufficient redactions [3] [4] [5].
1. What the public reporting actually shows about EFTA00020518 and EFTA00020508
Time’s coverage explicitly names EFTA00020518 as an FBI case file dated October 2020 that “contains an allegation of rape involving Trump,” and notes that nearly all newly released files include some redactions, primarily names and email addresses, but Time does not publish the file’s embedded page numbers or reproduce the quoted passage verbatim for independent page-level verification [3]. The provided dataset of news reports and DOJ index pages in these sources does not mention EFTA00020508 by name or reproduce its text, so there is no public, sourced record in this packet tying that identifier to a specific quote or showing the exact pagination or redaction pattern [1] [2] [3].
2. How redactions are described in the coverage and what that implies about locating quoted text
Multiple outlets describe the release as heavily redacted, with the DOJ saying redactions were intended to protect victims’ identities and to remove child sexual abuse material, and journalists and survivors reporting both over-redaction of alleged enablers and under-redaction of victims’ PII—evidence the redaction regime was inconsistent and that black boxes in the published PDFs may not reliably mark the same content across files [3] [6] [7]. Because the media summaries focus on the existence and consequences of redactions rather than on reproducing every redacted excerpt or mapping file identifiers to PDF page numbers, the public reporting here cannot confirm which precise page show the quoted passages or how many black bars or redaction strings cover them [3] [8].
3. What the DOJ site and accountability reporting can and cannot deliver
The DOJ maintains an Epstein “Library” and a disclosures landing page where the files were posted, and the department has publicly acknowledged removing thousands of documents for further redaction after victims complained—actions that indicate the online corpus is mutable and that page numbers and redaction treatments can change as items are taken down and reposted [1] [2] [5]. Oversight and news reporting confirm that the department withheld or redacted large volumes and later revised some material, which means any momentary page number captured by a third party could be different after DOJ edits; none of the supplied sources, however, publish the PDF page coordinates for the quoted passages tied to EFTA00020518 or EFTA00020508 [4] [5] [9].
4. How to get the exact pages and redaction details (next steps grounded in sources)
To obtain the exact page numbers and see how the quotations were redacted requires examining the DOJ’s Epstein Library directly (the official repository the department published) and, if necessary, querying the DOJ contact the department provided for the release (efta@usdoj.gov) or checking oversight committee releases and filings that sometimes excerpt or index specific documents—avenues documented in the public reporting as the operational channels for the records [1] [10] [4]. The sources reviewed establish these are the authoritative routes but do not themselves supply a verified page-to-quote mapping for EFTA00020518 or EFTA00020508, so this account stops short of inventing page citations the reporting does not include [1] [2] [3].