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A number of President Donald Trump‘s biggest allies in the House of Representatives have split with him and called for the complete release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert – both major supporters of Trump – co-sponsored a discharge petition announced by Republican Representative Thomas Massie and Democratic Representative Ro Khanna to force a vote in the House to release the complete files.
The proposed act, called the Epstein Files Transparency Act, would mandate Attorney General Pam Bondi to make public all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials regarding Epstein that are in the Department of Justice‘s (DOJ) possession.
It was co-sponsored by several other Republican representatives, including Tom Barrett, Cory Mills, Eric Burlison, Jeff Van Drew, Eli Crane and Tim Burchett. It was also sponsored by Democratic representative Rashida Tlaib.
The petition requires 218 signatures to force House Speaker Mike Johnson to call a vote on the bill.
It comes after Trump said earlier this week regarding Epstein: “I don’t understand what the interest or what the fascination is. I really don’t… I don’t understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It’s pretty boring stuff, it’s sordid, but it’s boring. And I don’t understand why it keeps going.”
But he added that Bondi should release any “credible information” that the DOJ has regarding him.
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This is a developing story. More to follow.