A United States transparency-focused advocacy group has launched a temporary exhibition in New York City featuring an unusual display: a printed compilation of all documents released by the US Department of Justice, about 3.5 million pages, connected to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The installation, titled the “The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room,” presents the material as 3,437 bound volumes, carefully numbered and arranged across shelves for public viewing.
“The truth is hard to deny when it’s printed and bound for you to see,” reads the website of the Institute of Primary Facts, a Washington-based nonprofit responsible for the project.
Visitors who want access to the pop-up library in Tribeca must register online in advance.
However, the general public is not permitted to directly browse the documents.
This restriction follows reported failures by the US Department of Justice United States Department of Justice to properly redact victim names included in the files.
Only select professionals, such as journalists and legal practitioners, are granted access under controlled conditions.
The exhibition also includes a section examining the long-running association between US President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, who died in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges involving minors.
The two were close acquaintances for decades before reportedly falling out in 2004 over a real estate dispute, after which Trump is said to have distanced himself and later condemned Epstein.
Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing despite his name appearing in multiple Epstein-related document releases.
“We’re a pro-democracy organization, with the goal of educating the public using these kinds of sort of pop-up museums and other in-real-life experiences to help people understand the corruption in the United States, the dangers to democracy,” said David Garrett, one of the creators of the project.
Garrett added that he believes “there needs to be real public outcry” over how the Trump administration handled the release of the documents, amid allegations from critics that officials attempted to obscure links between Trump and Epstein.
“And what we attempted to do here was to create, or help to create public outcry to have real accountability,” he added.
The exhibit will remain open to the public in Tribeca until May 21.
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