A protester holds a motion related to the merchandise of the Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit files extracurricular the US Capitol successful Washington, DC, Nov. 12, 2025.
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A petition successful the House of Representatives to unit a ballot to merchandise the alleged Jeffrey Epstein files connected Wednesday secured the past signature required to trigger that action.
Rep. Adelita Grilalva, D-Ariz., provided the 218th signature needed to o.k. the petition soon aft she was sworn successful arsenic a House member, aft weeks of delay.
The Trump medication has been nether occurrence for months for reneging connected promises to merchandise investigative files related to Epstein, a convicted enactment offender who killed himself successful 2019 aft his apprehension connected kid enactment trafficking charges.
Epstein had been a person of President Donald Trump for years earlier they had a falling retired successful the aboriginal 2000s.
House Democrats earlier Wednesday released much than 20,000 documents obtained from Epstein's property nether a subpoena.
The documents see emails and substance messages successful which Epstein talked astir Trump.
"I cognize however soiled donald is," Epsten wrote successful a 2018 email thread for Kathryn Ruemmler, who served arsenic erstwhile President Barack Obama's White House counsel, aft she sent Epstein an nonfiction astir Trump's ex-personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen's pleading blameworthy to run concern violations and agreeing to cooperate successful a national probe of the president.
In a abstracted April 2019 email released by Democrats, Epstein told writer Michael Wolff that Trump "knew astir the girls." It is unclear what the operation "knew astir the girls" meant.
CNBC has not independently verified the documents released by the Democrats.
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