The release of the files by the House Oversight Committee, the chamber’s chief investigative panel, had been expected, and it was not immediately clear whether it included any material the Trump administration had not already made public. Mr. Epstein, whose rich and powerful friends included President Trump, died by suicide in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
After years of alluding to a potential cover-up in the case, Mr. Trump has faced a backlash from his right-wing base over the Justice Department’s decision to close the investigation without revealing all of what was discovered. The Oversight panel subpoenaed all the files, but the department has turned over only a portion of them.
The publication of what it received came as Congress returned from a five-week recess that House Republican leaders had hoped might dissipate the fervor over the Epstein files, only to find that pressure had intensified.
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