Trump says he signed bill to release Epstein files

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US president announces he ordered the disclosure of documents related to the late convicted sex offender.

United States President Donald Trump has announced that he has signed a bill ordering the release of files related to the notorious late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump made the announcement on social media late on Wednesday following months of pressure on his administration to disclose the full extent on the disgraced financier’s crimes and his connections to elites in politics, business and entertainment.

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US Attorney General Pam Bondi had earlier told a news conference that the administration would “follow the law” and “encourage maximum transparency” in the case.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act compels the US Department of Justice to release all unclassified materials related to the late financier in a “searchable and downloadable format” within 30 days.

The legislation includes provisions allowing authorities to withhold information that could identify victims, as well child sex exploitation material and information deemed sensitive to “national defense or foreign policy”.

While thousands of files related to Epstein have been made public, a judge who presided over a case involving the financier earlier this year indicated that some 100,000 pages had yet to be released.

In announcing the move to release the files, Trump, who had resisted calls for greater transparency in the case, sought to cast the controversy around Epstein as a greater liability for Democrats than Republicans.

Writing on his platform Truth Social, Trump called Epstein a “lifelong” Democrat and noted his associations with high-profile Democrats, including former US President Bill Clinton and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers.

Neither Clinton nor Summers have been implicated in any criminal wrongdoing in their associations with Epstein, who died in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while facing sex trafficking charges.

“Perhaps the truth about these Democrats, and their associations with Jeffrey Epstein, will soon be revealed, because I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Epstein’s associations spanned the political aisle, including prominent Republicans as well as Democrats.

Trump was himself friendly with Epstein during the 1990s and early 2000s, and his name featured prominently in emails released by his estate earlier this month.

In one email sent in 2011, Epstein told his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, that Trump had “spent hours” at his home with a sex trafficking victim.

Trump has denied any wrongdoing and repeatedly insisted he had no knowledge of Epstein’s crimes.