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Welcome to The Logoff: After months of resistance by the Trump administration, the “Epstein files” are set to be released to the public.

What happened? On Tuesday, Congress voted overwhelmingly to compel President Donald Trump’s Justice Department to release files relating to deceased financier and onetime Trump friend Jeffrey Epstein. Trump, despite previous opposition, has said he will sign the bill into law.

What’s the context? The near-unanimous support in Congress belies the reality that Trump and his political allies really did not want this vote to happen; they just ran out of ways to put it off. Enou

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