With pressure mounting, the House and the Senate this week passed legislation mandating the release of a slew of government documents involving financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. President Donald Trump signed the bill late Wednesday.

The Justice Department files have been the source of rumor, innuendo and distraction, as Democrats openly speculate — without evidence — that the documents may show Mr. Trump was more closely linked to the disgraced pedophile than he has previously admitted. Meanwhile, rabid MAGA supporters demand disclosure, seeing the government’s reluctance to make the information public as evidence of a cover-up designed to protect the powerful.

Epstein, who had ties to various titans in the world of business, entertainment and politics, was convicted

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