Donald Trump announced this Wednesday via his Truth Social account that he signed the bill ordering the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all its files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
“The Democrats have used the Epstein issue, which affects them much more than the Republican Party, to try to divert attention from our “INCREDIBLE victories,” was the message with which the president accompanied the news of having ratified the bill, one day after Congress ordered it sent to his desk. “Maybe the truth about these Democrats and their ties to Jeffrey Epstein will soon be revealed, because I just signed the bill to release the Epstein files!” he said. The bill, formally known as the Epstein Files Transparency Act, was passed by the House of Representatives on Tuesday with a vote of 427 in favor and only 1 against, showing almost unanimous support for the legislative effort. The Senate unanimously passed it without the need for a new vote and sent it to the White House, thanks to a motion introduced by Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Despite Trump's signature, Attorney General Pam Bondi, He announced this Wednesday that the Justice Department had up to 30 days to release the files in their entirety. The law comes after more than four years of demands for transparency from the Trump opposition, as well as from the families of Epstein's victims, who hope the release will reveal possible accomplices and criminal liability. The law advanced thanks to a group of House Democrats who last week released some 20,000 new files, including emails in which the deceased pedophile claimed that Trump was aware of his crimes and that he had in fact spent "hours" with one of the victims at his mansion. The Republican president has expressed annoyance at the accusations against him related to the Epstein case.to the point where last Friday he ordered a reporter to shut up and called her a “piggy” when she asked him about the files that possibly link him to victims.
It remains unclear whether the Justice Department will attempt to cite the new investigation as justification for exempting much of the files from public release because of their relevance to the new investigation, even though the Justice Department and the FBI stated unequivocally in a July statement that they did not discover any evidence in a review of the files that would support a prior investigation against any uncharged person.
