US House expected to approve resolution on Epstein files

TRUMP GAVE IN AS 100 REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS WERE POISED TO DEFY HIM

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Annie Farmer Liz Stein and Danielle Bensky pose for a photo as a World Without Exploitation projection is seen on the wall of the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, Monday.

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US lawmakers were expected to advance a bill yesterday requiring the release of government records on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in defiance of President Donald Trump’s attempts to keep a lid on one of the country’s most notorious case files.

After weeks of resistance, behind-the-scenes pressure and frenzied lobbying against making the material public, Trump threw in the towel on Sunday as it became clear that as many as 100 Republicans in Congress were poised to defy him.

The House of Representatives looks all but certain to advance the Epstein Files Transparency Act, compelling publication of unclassified documents detailing the investigation into the disgraced financier’s operations and 2019 death in custody, ruled a suicide.