"On Wednesday, Donald Trump signed a bill ordering the Department of Justice to release the case files on the millionaire financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Or, at least, that's what he said he did, 24 hours after the bill was overwhelmingly approved by both the House and the Senate. The U.S. president chose to sign it without witnesses or the usual ceremony he favors in such cases."
"He made the announcement on his social media platform, Truth Social, after 9 p.m., at the end of a day in which, unusually for him, he avoided the press. In his message, Trump said little about the law, the crimes of his former friend, or the victims. Instead, he took the opportunity to recall that Epstein was arrested and died in a maximum-security cell in Manhattan (the coroner ruled it was suicide) under his first presidency;"
"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, he wrote on Truth Social, before going on to list all those achievements with a mix of exaggeration, lies and half-truths. In his message, Trump cited former president Bill Clinton, former Treasury secretary Larry Summers, who has been removed or stepped down from several boards following revelations about his email exchanges with the late financier;"
The president signed a bill directing the Department of Justice to release the case files related to Jeffrey Epstein. The signature came a day after overwhelming congressional approval and was executed without witnesses or ceremony. The announcement was posted late on Truth Social after a day in which the president avoided the press. The message emphasized Epstein's arrest and death in a Manhattan jail during the president's first term, labeled Epstein a lifelong Democrat, and asserted that he authorized support for the bill. The message also accused Democrats of using the Epstein issue for political distraction and named several public figures linked by email revelations.
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