President Endorses Measure to Disclose More Jeffrey Epstein Documents After Months of Pushback

Donald Trump declared on Wednesday night that he had signed the legislation resoundingly endorsed by Congress members that instructs the Department of Justice to disclose more records concerning Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender.

This decision comes after weeks of resistance from the president and his political allies in the House and Senate that fractured his political supporters and generated conflicts with various established backers.

The president had opposed disclosing the Epstein files, describing the situation a "hoax" and condemning those who wanted to make the files available, notwithstanding pledging their release on the political campaign.

But he reversed course in the past few days after it was evident the legislative chamber would approve the bill. The president said: "Everything is transparent".

It's not clear what the justice department will release in following the legislation – the legislation specifies a host of various records that should be made public, but allows exclusions for certain documents.

The President Endorses Bill to Require Publication of Additional Epstein Records

The legislation mandates the attorney general to make public Epstein-related documents open for review "available for online access", including all investigations into Epstein, his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, aircraft records and travel records, persons mentioned or identified in relation to his offenses, entities that were tied to his trafficking or money operations, exemption arrangements and other plea agreements, official correspondence about legal actions, documentation of his imprisonment and demise, and particulars about any file deletions.

The department will have thirty days to turn over the records. The measure contains some exceptions, encompassing redactions of confidential victim data or individual documents, any depictions of child sexual abuse, publications that would jeopardize active investigations or legal cases and representations of fatality or exploitation.

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