The records of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation will be made public within 30 days, Attorney General Pam Boydi said Wednesday, following a nearly unanimous congressional vote to force the Trump administration to make them public.
In a press conference, Bodie confirmed that the department will release the material within 30 days, as required by the law passed by the House and Senate.
However, the release may not be complete, the Guardian notes, as the department may need to withhold material that could interfere with Trump-ordered investigations into Democratic operatives who had ties to Epstein.
Further, the department will protect the identity of sex trafficking victims whose names appear in the documents, the secretary added.
In any case, the scandal has been a “thorn” for Trump for months, in part because it has reinforced conspiracy theories about Epstein. Many Trump voters believe his administration has covered up the convicted sex offender’s ties to powerful figures.
They also believe he has withheld details about his death, which was ruled a suicide, in a Manhattan prison in 2019 while facing federal sex trafficking charges.
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