The Daily Populous Thursday November 20th, 2025 day edition
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Trump had promised during his 2024 presidential campaign to make the files public, and early in the year his administration released thousands of pages of documents from the Epstein investigation, mostly flight logs. While Trump said more documents were coming, Bondi later announced in July there would be no further releases.

That prompted lawmakers from both parties to introduce the resolution compelling the files' release. One of the resolution's key proponents was Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of Trump's fiercest political allies. She has publicly fought with Trump in recent weeks, as the US president maintained his opposition to the resolution up to a few days before the vote.

After the resolution passed, Greene posted to say that she would read the name of any powerful person implicated in any released files aloud on the House floor.

The anticipated files are different to the more than 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein's estate released by Congress last week, including some that mention Trump.

Those include 2018 messages from Epstein in which he said of Trump: "I am the one able to take him down" and "I know how dirty donald is".

Trump was a friend of Epstein's for years, but the president has said they fell out in the early 2000s, years before Epstein was first arrested. Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.

Speaking to reporters on Monday night, Trump said Republicans had "nothing to do with Epstein".

"It's really a Democrat problem," he said. "The Democrats were Epstein's friends, all of them."

The family of Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide earlier this year, said in a statement Trump signing the bill was "nothing short of monumental", for Giuffre and other survivors.

"As we look towards the next chapter, we remain vigilant. This work is not finished. Every name must be revealed, regardless of power, wealth, or party affiliation," her brother and sister-in-law, Sky and Amanda Roberts, said.

Epstein was found dead in 2019 in his New York prison cell in what a coroner ruled was a suicide. He was being held on charges of sex trafficking. He had been convicted previously of soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008.

The once high-flying financier had ties with a number of high-profile figures, including Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the brother of King Charles and former prince; Trump; Trump's former advisor Steve Bannon; and a cast of other characters from the world of media, politics and entertainment.

On Wednesday, former Harvard president Larry Summers took a leave from teaching at the university while the school investigated his links to Epstein, revealed in a series of chummy email exchanges.

GaryOak7 on November 20th, 2025 at 01:56 UTC »

He signed it off-camera with no press… something is off. This isn’t his normal behavior.

InorganicProductions on November 20th, 2025 at 01:55 UTC »

Literally the entire world knows he has his name removed from them. Who’s he trying to fool?

19chris1996 on November 20th, 2025 at 01:54 UTC »

The deed is done. However, I don't think these are the files we think are being released.