What’s next, now that President Trump has reversed course and told Republicans in Congress to release the Epstein files?
The US House was already set to vote this week on compelling the full file release from the US Department of Justice, although the date hasn’t been announced. If it passes, attention turns to the US Senate.
President Trump officially supported the vote Sunday night after lengthy efforts by both him and House Speaker Mike Johnson to make sure the vote doesn’t happen, including a recent meeting with influential Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert in an unsuccessful effort to have her remove her name from the discharge petition and an increasingly public spat with Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Trump’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein, a financier more known for organizing sex parties and other sexual activities with underage girls before he died by suicide in 2019, have been hotly debated for years. Last week, the House Oversight Committee approved the release of over 20,000 emails, texts and other documents, many of which name Trump — well after Trump said his association with Epstein ended.
In supporting the release, Trump says the work is part of a Democratic hoax. He has asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to start an investigation into several prominent Democrats connected in some way to Epstein.
ABC News will have more information on this developing story.
