The President of the United States, Donald Trump, signed on Wednesday the law that will force the Department of Justice to release (almost) all accumulated material on the Epstein Case. Emails, contact lists, flight records, hotels, or calls. Investigation papers and even internal messages from the team leaders currently led by Attorney General Pam Bondi, the bulk of what millions of people have been waiting for for five years, convinced that secrets, lies, and lists of culprits are hidden there.
He did so amidst complaints, delays, and harsh criticism from the Democratic Party, which has been mocking his apparent change of opinion in the last week, claiming it is part of a distraction maneuver. "Jeffrey Epstein, accused by Trump's Department of Justice in 2019 (Not by the Democrats!), was a lifelong Democrat, donated thousands of dollars to Democratic politicians, and had close ties to many well-known Democratic figures (...) Perhaps the truth about them and their links to Jeffrey Epstein will soon be revealed, because I just signed the bill to disclose Epstein's files!" he wrote on his Truth Social account after 8:30 p.m. Without cameras or surrounded by journalists, as he always does.
Trump has long maintained that there is nothing important, new, or enlightening in the Epstein papers and that it made no sense to think about them, talk about them, let alone make them public. Despite that, today he wanted to boast of openness. "Following my instructions, the Department of Justice has already handed over nearly 50,000 pages of documents to Congress. Don't forget: the Biden Administration did not hand over a single file or page related to Democrat Epstein, nor did they even comment on him."
He had also repeatedly ordered his pawns in Congress to block any initiative. Until the weekend when he announced the opposite, not only giving permission to congressmen to support the proposition presented by the Democrats but also instructions to expedite it. The law will force declassification, but includes clauses for Justice to protect the interests of minors or to prevent the dissemination of content that could affect ongoing investigations. Not by chance, the Attorney General recently announced that she has opened a parallel investigation, a file on the possible links of Democratic figures with the pedophile criminal. Critics consider this a trick to prevent many papers from seeing the light. If the president were truly transparent as he claims, they argue, he would not have needed any law; he could have ordered declassification at any time.
The House of Representatives voted on that legislation almost unanimously on Tuesday, with only one vote against, the decree, after months of Republican blockade. The Senate followed suit with automatic approval, without the need for debate or even a formal vote. The pressure on the congressmen and senators was intense from all angles. Voters, media, and even the bases of the MAGA movement, created by Trump, which has been fueling all kinds of conspiracies about Epstein, his friends, and a potential secret list of clients and blackmailed personalities. The rich and famous who flew on his private plane, attended his parties, or spent time on his Caribbean island.
Epstein's victims have been protesting for months to reveal the details. The pedophile financier committed suicide in prison in 2019, weeks after being arrested for sexual abuse of minors and human trafficking. His ex-girlfriend, socialite and procurer of minors, Ghislaine Maxwell, is serving a 20-year sentence, but the Trump administration has begun negotiating with her to try to absolve the president of any possible accusation, rewarding her with a transfer to a minimum-security prison, something unprecedented for a person convicted of such crimes.
"The Democrats have used the 'Epstein' issue, which affects them much more than the Republican Party, to try to distract attention from our INCREDIBLE victories (...) For years, our great nation has had to endure Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, the first and second impeachment attempt, and many other witch hunts and scams created by the Democrats, all of them terrible and divisive for our country, and carried out to confuse, divert attention, and distract from the excellent work being done by the Republicans and the Trump administration. This latest deception will backfire on them, like all the others!" concluded his lengthy message.