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Washington Examiner's Joe Concha said Democrats look “far worse” right now than President Donald Trump regarding Jeffrey Epstein.
The House sent to the Senate a bill that would force the release of the Epstein files, the final procedural move before President Trump's signature.
Trump called for ABC's license to be revoked as he snapped at a reporter who asked why he doesn't order the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The White House quietly lobbied senators to slow-walk a vote to force the release of investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein even as President Donald Trump publicly insisted his administration had nothing to hide and urged Congress to act, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
The final House vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act was 427-1. U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana was the sole no vote.
After Trump signs the Epstein files bill, the Justice Department has 30 days to publicize "all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials" from the investigation into the disgraced financier and indicted sex trafficker who died by suicide in 2019, according to the legislation.
Virginia’s U.S. senators spoke about several major developments in Washington DC, including President Trump’s decision to approve the release of the Epstein files.
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Epstein Release Triggers New Washington Firestorm
The House Oversight Committee released about 20,000 pages of emails and texts from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate documenting his contacts and projects in the months before his 2019 arrest and death, and the release prompted criticism and renewed calls to unseal Department of Justice files.