The Justice Department on Monday renewed its request to unseal grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking cases, arguing they should be made public under a new law requiring the government to open its files on the late financier and his longtime confidante.
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The former Harvard president steps down from OpenAI and other boards after emails show he sought romantic advice from the convicted sex offender.
Rep. Troy Nehls of Richmond was among House Republicans who had previously opposed releasing the files, but reversed their stances this week.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has suggested the bill compelling the release of the files will be stalled in the Senate.
WASHINGTON (AP) The House is expected to vote Tuesday on legislation to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, the culmination of a monthslong effort that has overcome opposition from President Donald Trump and Republican leadership. When a small bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced a [.].
Several House Republicans have reportedly heard from the Department of Justice are worse than Michael Wolff’s description of Epstein photos showing Trump with half naked teenage girls,” Shuster wrote. Shuster is likely referring to an October interview in which Trump biographer Michael Wolff told the Daily Beast that he had personally seen “about a dozen Polaroid snapshots” of Trump and Epstein, in which Trump was photographed with several topless young women on his lap. Wolff said Epstein pulled the photos out of a safe and spread them out “like a deck of cards” on his dining room table. The author told the Beast he saw the photos while visiting Epstein’s home at the convicted sex offender’s invitation, as Epstein wanted Wolff to write a book about him. The veteran journalist further reported that Republicans were “spooked” by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, after she refused to answer a question from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R. I.) about whether she had personally seen the photos after the contents of Epstein’s safe were confiscated. After Whitehouse asked her about the photos, Bondi then questioned him about receiving campaign donations from LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, who associated with Epstein.”She didn’t give a denial,” Shuster wrote. According to Shuster, Republicans’ anxiety about the contents of the Epstein files is compounded by “more than 100+ Republicans” who are reportedly planning to vote for the bipartisan discharge petition by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), which only needs one more signature in order to force a floor vote. Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz), who won a late September special election to fill the seat vacated by her late father, promised to be the 218th and final signature on the discharge petition, though she has yet to be sworn in.
Prince Andrew’s biographer warns the disgraced royal could still face a trial if new information comes out about the Epstein scandal.