President Endorses Measure to Release Additional Jeffrey Epstein Records After Period of Opposition

The US leader announced on late Wednesday that he had endorsed the legislation overwhelmingly passed by US legislators that mandates the justice department to release more files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the dead sex offender.

The move arrives after months of opposition from the president and his backers in the legislature that divided his political supporters and generated conflicts with various established backers.

Trump had resisted making public the Epstein files, calling the issue a "false narrative" and railing against those who wanted to make the records accessible, notwithstanding promising their release on the campaign trail.

However he reversed course in the past few days after it become clear the legislative chamber would endorse the measure. The president said: "We have nothing to hide".

It's not clear what the department will release in response to the legislation – the measure outlines a range of various records that should be made public, but provides exceptions for some materials.

Trump Signs Measure to Compel Publication of Additional Jeffrey Epstein Files

The legislation requires the chief law enforcement officer to make public related documents publicly available "in an easily accessible digital format", including all investigations into Epstein, his associate his accomplice, flight logs and travel records, persons mentioned or identified in relation to his crimes, entities that were linked to his trafficking or economic systems, immunity deals and other plea agreements, official correspondence about legal actions, evidence of his confinement and demise, and details about possible record elimination.

The agency will have thirty days to submit the documents. The measure provides for certain exemptions, encompassing removals of victims' identifying information or individual documents, any representations of child sexual abuse, disclosures that would endanger active investigations or prosecutions and representations of death or abuse.

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