The US House of Representatives demands the release of Epstein's documents

WashingtonGreen light to release Epstein documents. The US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill to force the Justice Department to release the documents of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The vote, which received 427 votes in favor, was approved. sixThe vote was virtually unanimous, were it not for a dissenting vote cast by a Republican legislator. The list of individual votes has not yet been released, revealing who voted against it. The chamber erupted in applause when the result was announced.

The resolution will now go to the Senate, where Republican Majority Leader John Thune will have to grapple with this thorny issue, which threatens to shatter Donald Trump's grip on his base and potentially create an irreconcilable split within the MAGA movement. Before the vote, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has gone from a staunch Trump loyalist to a dissenter, criticized the president for the attacks he leveled against her over the weekend. "I was branded a traitor by a man I fought for for six years and to whom I gave my loyalty freely," she told Epstein's victims gathered outside the Capitol. "I don't owe him anything," Greene said, reminding the Republican how he was able to win the primaries without his support.

On Monday, Trump gave his senators the green light to move forward with the bill: "I'm all for it." The president said that once the upper house gave its approval, he would sign the resolution immediately to make it effective.

The vote has reached the House of Representatives following an initiative by a bipartisan group of lawmakers who, in July, launched a petition to circumvent the obstruction by the Speaker of the House, Republican Mike Johnson. The proposal garnered the support of 218 representatives and forced the bill to finally be put to a vote. This morning, before the session began, Johnson relented and assured that he would support the vote. "I will vote to move this forward. I think it could be almost a unanimous vote, because everyone here, all the Republicans, want to demonstrate their maximum transparency," he said.

After trying to prevent the proposal from reaching the House of Representatives, Johnson attempted to portray the Democrats as responsible for the current deadlock: "I sincerely hope my Democratic colleagues will show the same level of urgency and enthusiasm when it comes to..."

Until the weekend, Trump and his team had pressured to prevent the release of more files from the Epstein investigation, butIn a surprising change of position (with which he intended to disguise the loss of control among his ranks), Trump on Monday asked the deputies to vote in favor of releasing the files of the pedophile case. with whom he himself maintained a close relationship. "We have nothing to hide, and it's time to put this Democratic hoax behind us, perpetrated by lunatics of the radical left to distract from the great success of the Republican Party," the president argued through Truth Social.

With this message, Trump turned the tables on the incriminating narrative that had been generated around him following the publication last week of a series of Epstein emails. In one of the communications, the convicted sex offender told his partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, that the magnate and current president of the United States had spent "hours" with one of the victims at his home, implying that he knew about the child trafficking ring. In response, Republicans released more than 20,000 documents with other communications from Epstein in which he mentions other Democratic figures, such as former President Bill Clinton and his former Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers. Taking advantage of the occasion, Trump announced that he was urging the Justice Department to open an investigation into their ties to Epstein, an attempt to turn the scandal against his political enemies.