The US Congress agreed, on Tuesday, to declassify the documents of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who is involved in a case of alleged sexual assaults on minors, after US President Donald Trump changed his position and asked Republicans to support publication.
The Senate unanimously gave the “green light” to the bill ordering the Justice Department to disclose documents related to Epstein and sent the text to Trump’s desk, just hours after the House of Representatives approved the document with one vote against it, and the only dissenting vote was that of Louisiana Republican Representative Clay Huggins.
A day before that, the tenant of the White House stated that he was ready to sign the bill that arrived in his hands with the declassification of the Epstein files, confirming the change in his position that he had previously announced when he asked Republicans to support the measure, ensuring that they in his party had “nothing to hide.”
This announcement contradicts his resistance to publishing the aforementioned files throughout his second term, despite making this one of the most important arguments of his election campaign. But he asserts that the Democratic Party insists on this issue as a strategy aimed at ignoring the “successes” of his administration.
Last week, a House committee released several emails from Epstein in which he claimed the current US president “spent hours” with a victim of a child trafficking ring and that he “knew about the girls,” bringing their relationship back into focus.
In September, Congress released a trove of files related to Epstein, which included more than 33,000 pages, that had been given to him by the Justice Department in an attempt at transparency by the Trump administration, but the measure did not work because most of them had already been published previously, generating pressure within its ranks to release more new documents in the case.
Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on charges of sexually assaulting and trafficking dozens of girls in the early 2000s. This millionaire, who at one time met figures such as Prince Andrew of England – brother of Charles III – Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, was discovered hanged in his cell.
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