After months of build-up —and a steady drip of revelations that became a political liability for President Donald Trump —the House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill demanding the Department of Justice release all its files related to the convicted pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

The president and members of his party had intensely fought the petition, which was introduced by Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie over the summer after Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the DOJ had no evidence Epstein had been killed in prison, and no evidence implicating others in his crimes. But after the issue created fractures within Trump’s base—and a batch of emails released by the House Oversight Committee inspired renewed scrutiny on the relations

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