Trump signs sweeping law forcing full release of Epstein files after near-unanimous congressional vote
President Trump announced Wednesday that he has signed congressional legislation forcing the federal government to release documents related to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
“I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!” Trump wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post.
“As everyone knows, I asked Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to pass this Bill in the House and Senate, respectively,” the president added. “Because of this request, the votes were almost unanimous in favor of passage.”
The measure Trump signed into law requires the Department of Justice to turn over all “unclassified records, documents, communications and investigative materials” — and all classified information to the maximum extent possible — to Congress within 30 days.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was introduced by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), would also order Attorney General Pam Bondi to deliver a list of government officials and other “politically exposed persons” linked to Epstein within 15 days of receiving the president’s signature.
The bill sailed through the House of Representatives in a 427-1 vote Tuesday, and was sent to Trump’s desk by the Senate with unanimous consent.
The Trump administration had been at odds with lawmakers for much of the year on releasing the so-called Epstein files – with the president slamming the subject as a Democrat-led “hoax.”
Only four Republicans — Massie and Reps. Nancy Mace (R-SC), Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — joined all 214 House Democrats to get the necessary 218 signatures needed to force a vote on the resolution.
After Trump signaled he would sign the bill into law if it passed, it received a surge in GOP support.
In his post, the president noted Epstein “was charged by the Trump Justice Department in 2019 (Not the Democrats!)” for child sex trafficking and that the disgraced financier “was a lifelong Democrat,” who “donated Thousands of Dollars to Democrat Politicians, and was deeply associated with many well-known Democrat figures, such as Bill Clinton (who traveled on his plane 26 times), Larry Summers (who just resigned from many Boards, including Harvard), Sleazebag Political Activist Reid Hoffman, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (who asked Epstein to donate to his Campaign AFTER Epstein was charged), Democrat Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, and many more.”
“Perhaps the truth about these Democrats, and their associations with Jeffrey Epstein, will soon be revealed,” the president added.
Trump further noted that the DOJ “has already turned over close to fifty thousand pages of documents to Congress” at his direction and that the Biden administration “did not turn over a SINGLE file or page related to Democrat Epstein, nor did they ever even speak about him.”
The president argued that Democrats have used “the ‘Epstein’ issue” to distract from the “AMAZING Victories” of his administration.
“This latest Hoax will backfire on the Democrats just as all of the rest have!” Trump predicted.
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