According to multiple media outlets such as Reuters and Politico, on the 18th, the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate quickly passed a bill requiring the U.S. Department of Justice to release more documents related to the Epstein case. The bill will be sent to Trump for approval, and it is expected that Trump will likely sign it into law.
It should be said that this bill is actually a reluctant compromise by the Republican Party under internal party pressure.
Recently, the rift between Trump and his long-time ally, conservative Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, over the issue of releasing Epstein case documents has caused a storm within the Republican Party.
Greene's stance in demanding the release of documents has gained the support of several Republican congressmen - and after seeing that he could not stop it, Trump had no choice but to agree to release the documents to avoid further factional division and an embarrassing situation where many members would switch sides during the vote. He hopes to regain control of the situation and shape an image of "openness and courage".
However, even though Trump and Clinton have been making a lot of noise recently, we don't need to have high expectations for the release of the Epstein case documents this time.
Because in early February this year, the U.S. Department of Justice had already released a batch of documents, which not only had large parts of key content blacked out, but these documents were also versions that had already been exposed by the media, containing no new information at all.
To put it bluntly, the current development of the Epstein case document controversy has long been unrelated to legal justice, and has evolved into a political struggle between the two parties. The purpose of releasing the documents is merely to quell internal disputes and consolidate surface unity, rather than to thoroughly reveal the truth.
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