Democrats moved Wednesday to force Donald Trump to release files from the investigation into notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, invoking an obscure law to keep up the pressure on an issue that has roiled the US president's administration.

The White House has been facing increasingly intense demands to be more transparent about the case of the disgraced financier, who died in federal prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

The president raised further questions about his past relationship with Epstein on Tuesday when he told reporters he fell out with his former friend after he "stole" female employees from the spa at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

The Justice Department angered Trump supporters earlier this month when it confirmed that Epstein had die

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