Trump signs bill to release Jeffrey Epstein case files after fighting it for months

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 8:26 PM EST, November 19, 2025


WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday that compels his administration to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, bowing to political pressure from his own party after initially resisting those efforts.

Trump could have chosen to release many of the files on his own months ago.

“Democrats have used the ‘Epstein’ issue, which affects them far more than the Republican Party, in order to try and distract from our AMAZING Victories,” Trump said in a social media post as he announced he had signed the bill.

Now, the bill requires the Justice Department to release all files and communications related to Epstein, as well as any information about the investigation into his death in a federal prison in 2019, within 30 days. It allows for redactions about Epstein’s victims for ongoing federal investigations, but DOJ cannot withhold information due to “embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity.”


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[Ocelot II]

1. Bring on the shenanigans!

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. I heard a rumour

That Staples delivered a semi truck full of Sharpies to the DOJ today.

[winstars]

4. Welcome to DU!

[Scrivener7]

5. Sure, Jan.

[Vinca]

6. Blondie will keep them under wraps.

[Shellback Squid]

7. we are never going to see these files

[Martin68]

8. Hard to believe he folded, but he might be counting on the DOJ refusing to release files because they re evidence in

ongoig investigations.

[RockRaven]

9. Oh, no press conference signing ceremony where he shows everyone how he

can sign his name like a real big boy?

Ah, that's a shame.

[Wednesdays]

10. K&R.

[meadowlander]

11. I wonder if all his recent musings on death have been a smokescreen.

Realising the game is up, having looted everything worth stealing in government, and unable to hold back the inexorable approach of his political doom, Trump gives himself a final 30 days to fake his own death, hightail it somewhere that has no extradition and set himself up for the remainder of his days eating hamburgers, boring his golf partners, and ogling teen beauty contestants in Abu Dhabi.

If I held Trump coin, I'd say now's the time to sell it.

[BWdem4life]

12. Now that his name has been redacted from every last page. nt

[C Moon]

13. I'm already seeing right wing boneheads on TikTok, etc (and probably that deleted comment above)...

"Okay, the Epstein files are released...what does that have to do with trump?"
It doesn't matter that anyone gets to see the files now—all congress/senate/trump had to do was "release them." Whatever that means.