The US Congress overwhelmingly approves the declassification of Jeffrey Epstein’s files. The United States House of Representatives almost unanimously approved this Tuesday the law to force the Department of Justice to publish the documents of the billionaire pedophile pedophile.
The vote in the Lower House of a bill that orders the Department of Justice to disclose documents related to the businessman has gone ahead with 427 votes in favor and one againstbeing the Republican representative from Louisiana, Clay Higginsthe only dissenting vote. Now, it will have to receive the ‘green light’ from the full Senate.
The president of that country, who for 15 years was a friend of Epstein, gave permission last Sunday, although he did not go as far as he could: it is in his power to order the disclosure without the need for permission from the Capitol of those files, which could reveal the involvement of dozens of rich and influential men in the pedophile’s sex trafficking networkas well as the complicity of financial institutions and judicial bodies or the failures of the authorities that allowed him to act with impunity.
This announcement contrasted with his resistance to the dissemination of the aforementioned files throughout his second term, despite making this one of his great campaign arguments. However, he maintains that the Democratic Party insists on this issue as strategy aimed at ignoring the “successes” of his Administration.
Last week, a House committee released several emails from Epstein in which he claimed that the current US president and that he “knew about the girls,” putting the spotlight back on their relationship.
Likewise, in September, Congress released a batch of files related to Epstein, which included more than 33,000 pageswhich had been given to him by the Department of Justice in an attempt at transparency by the Trump Administration, but the measure did not work because most of it had already been made public previously, which generated pressure within its ranks for the publication of more documents that were novel in this case.
Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on charges of sexual abuse and trafficking of dozens of girls in the early 2000s. This millionaire, who even rubbed shoulders at some point with personalities such as Prince Andrew of England (brother of Charles III), Bill Clinton or the current president of the United States,
