(Adnkronos) – The Epstein case returns to the center of the debate in Congress, with the House next week voting on the motion, which for months the Republican leadership has kept blocked, for the full release of government files on the pedophile financier who died in prison in 2019.
“We will bring it to the floor for a vote next week, immediately after our return,” said Speaker Mike Johnson, at the end of the day marked by the publication, by Democrats, of some of the 20,000 emails delivered to the Oversight Committee by Epstein’s heirs in which the financier named Trump and stated, among other things, that the president “knew about the girls.”
Not only that, but yesterday also saw the 218th signature, that of newly elected Democratic representative Adelita Grijalva, who was only able to be sworn in by Johnson yesterday after a 50-day wait, on the bipartisan petition aimed at overcoming the Speaker’s maneuvers, including the postponement of the Democrat’s swearing-in, to prevent a vote on the Epstein files. Faced with these developments, the Republican leader decided to act preemptively, without waiting for the petition’s timeline which would have led to a vote in early December, by quickly scheduling the vote on the Epstein files transparency act.
Several Republican representatives are expected to vote with the Democrats, and this could become a political problem for the Republican leadership and the White House, which last summer already had to deal with protests from a part of the Maga base over the decision not to publish the Epstein files, failing to keep electoral promises.
Not to mention the great attention the media has once again started giving to the relationship between Trump and Epstein, who were great friends for years until their breakup in 2004, after the publication of the new emails. Meanwhile, the two signatories of the bill, Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie, the representative who has become a sort of internal nemesis to Trump’s party, have called a conference with Epstein’s victims for Tuesday in Congress.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Trump’s former loyalist who, according to the president, “has lost her way,” supports the initiative and signed the petition along with two other Republicans, Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace.
