Republicans move to block Democratic effort to force release of Epstein files | Jeffrey Epstein

Republican legislators have moved to block a democratic effort to force the release of the so-called Epstein files, a quasi-mythological treasure of information not disclosed on the sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein at the center of an internal political war among the American conservatives.

The Democrats had done pressure for a change in cryptocurrency legislation which would have forced the publication of detailed information and exhibitions in a list of evidence held by the Ministry of Justice of the 2019 sex trafficking case against the EPSTEIN disgrace financier.

Donald Trump’s prosecutor general, Pam Bondi has teased full accounting of Epstein evidence, including an alleged list of customers earlier this year. But 10 days ago, she changed course when she announced that the Trump administration had examined the evidence, concluded that Epstein had actually committed suicide in prison and would not release the content which, according to the Ministry of Justice, included a thousand hours of video representing sexual abuse for children.

It sparked a storm of fire in the Trump Maga Maga Great movement (Maga) that the president has since tried to calm down.

The Democrats had weighed on the issue, hoping to force a release of documents. “The question with Epstein is: which side are you on?” California Democratic Democratic Us House, Ro Khanna, the author of the Epstein measure, told Axios. “Are you on the side of the rich and powerful, or are you on the side of people?”

Khanna promised to present the amendment “again and again”.

But the republicans of the United States House Rules Committee voted the amendment that would have enabled the Congress to vote on the question of whether the evidence – which include micro -huts, DVDs, CDs, including a labeled “Girl Pics Nude Book 4”, hard computer disks and three massage tables in green, beige and Brown – should be published.

However, the federal affair against Epstein, which dates back to 2005 and implies a mysterious advocacy which allowed the financier to plead guilty to Florida state charges to solicitation of a minor, continues to challenge what political restaurants on the right and on the left believe is proof of a harmful bond of international power.

The debacle opposed Bondi and Trump – who was a friend with Epstein, his neighbor from Florida for many years, before denying him – against the deputy director of the FBI, Dan Bongino. Bongino would have faced Bondi on the Epstein case and planned to resign from Maga Megaphones, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, Megyn Kelly called for the release of Epstein files.

In 2023, Bongino said on his Podcast Rightwing: “This story by Jeffrey Epstein is a big problem. Please do not leave this story. Keep an eye on it.”

The Daily Beast reported that Trump was furious at Bongino, who did not show up for work since July 9 after a cries match broke out between him and Bondi. Trump took the side of Bondi, leaving the future of Bongino to the FBI open to the question, and the vice-president, JD Vance, was obviously called to media, according to CNN.

On Monday, the drama turned to the British worldly Ghislaine Maxwell, the condemned co-conspirator of Epstein in the sex trafficking case, which appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States to maintain a non-pretention agreement contained in the advocacy agreement in Florida of Epstein.

The US Ministry of Justice asked the court to refuse Maxwell, 63, who is serving a 20 -year sentence, the request.

“I would be surprised if President Trump knew that his lawyers asked the Supreme Court to let the government break up an agreement,” said Maxwell’s lawyer David Oscar Markus, in a statement sent by email to the Guardian.

“He is the last negotiator – and I am sure it would be suitable that when the United States gives his word, it should keep him. With all the speeches on which is prosecuted and which is not, it is particularly unfair that Ghislaine Maxwell remains in prison on the basis of a promise that the government has made and broke out.”

But the congress could now ask Maxwell to testify. Citing anonymous sources, the Daily Mail reported on Monday that Maxwell was interested in doing so. Under certain circumstances, under the federal rule 35, a condemned criminal can negotiate a reduction in sentence in exchange for cooperation.

Nevertheless, the government has managed to do so, especially when Maxwell maintained its innocence and called on its conviction. The prosecutors clearly indicated that they considered that the case was closed and would not go after figures less alleged in the sex trafficking conspiracy.

“It all depends on who she would cooperate and what she has to offer,” said defense lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman to The Guardian after Maxwell’s conviction in 2021. “I would not be surprised if she had already tried to cooperate and it had failed.”

“Of all the people supposed to be involved with Epstein, 99% of them have never taken the evidence of the government,” added Lichtman, venturing that the government may have tried “to avoid any gambad by the jury – that they would be distracted by the daring names – but many people have not been continued here when it seems to have been”.