The chairman of the Senate Minister, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., speaks during a press conference with senator of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Washington-Die US Senate Democrats began to demand a little-known legal way on Wednesday to force President Donald Trump’s government to publish the investigative files on the now deceased sex offender of Florida and the financier Jeffrey Epstein.
In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, democratic members of the Senate Committee for Homeland Protection and Government Matters together with Chuck Schumer, Chairman of the Senate, applied for the “complete and complete Epstein files” until August 15.
“After misconceptions and failed promise of your department in relation letter Under the direction of Senator Gary Peters from Michigan, the best democrat of the committee.
“We ask you to fulfill these promises of transparency,” continued the letter dated July 29.
In addition to Schumer, other co -signers Sens. Richard Blumenthal from Connecticut, Maggie Hassan from New Hampshire, John Fetterman from Pennsylvania, Elissa Slotkin from Michigan, Andy Kim from New Jersey and Ruben Gallego from Arizona.
Five senators
The senators appoint an almost centuries -old Law This forces the executive to correspond if at least five senators of the committee register an application, Schumer reporters said at a press conference on Wednesday.
“While protecting the victim’s identity can and must be of the utmost importance, the public has the right to know who enables or has participated in history in history,” said Schumer.
Blumenthal added that all the notes and records of the deputy general prosecutor’s deadly blanche interviews Last week Ghislaine Maxwell should also be released in Tallahasee, Florida. Maxwell was convicted in 2021 and is now serving a 20-year prison in a federal prison in Florida for conspiracy With Epstein to secure and transport minors for sexual abuse.
In addition to the request of all investigative materials by mid -August, the senators also demanded a briefing for the employees of the committee by August 29.
Schumer said that the committee’s Democrats “still speak to Republican colleagues” in order to urge them to join the request.
“And that can help to achieve this public, but if not, there is back in the dishes. This is the law,” said Schumer.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice confirmed the status newsroom that he received the letter, but rejected it to continue commenting.
Ghislaine Maxwell in charge
The decision of the Ministry of Justice at the beginning of July, what is described as an Epstein from the public perspective, triggers turmoil and division among the Republicans in the congress, the administrative official and the base of Trump.
James Comer, Chairman of the Reform Committee for Home Supervision and Government Reform, a Republican in Kentucky, gave a summons out For a deposition on August 11 with Maxwell. The leadership of the committee rejected the convicted sex dealer on Tuesday to the state of immunity. after to media reports.
The continued noise led the spokesman Mike Johnson’s spokesman, a Republican in Louisiana and Trump, to release Members early for the six weeks of August break to avoid voices in connection with the distribution of the release of epstein material.
The signless memo of the Doj on July 7 stated that a review of the files did not reveal any “stressful ‘client list” and that no further disclosure of the investigative materials would be “appropriate or justified”.
Since the Memo was published, the Wall Street Journal unveiled This Bondi informed Trump in May that his name appeared in the Epstein materials. The context in which its name appears is unknown.
The journal too reported The existence of a greeting of a 50th mountain day that Trump draws for Epstein and wrote that contained the outline of a naked woman with Trump’s signature as a pubic hair. Trump fought that he did the drawing and sued Wall Street Journal.
In the reports, further requirements for the publication of the files were fueled.
Failure between Trump and Epstein
Trump card told reporters On Tuesday that he was accompanied by Epstein after the financier when he started to “take young women” from his estate in Mar-A-Lago. Trump said Epstein “Stolen” Virginia Giuffre “, who worked in the Palm Beach, Florida, at the age of 16 in 2000 at the age of 16. A 2016 deposition.
Giuffre claimed that Maxwell and Epstein had acted as a teenager for illegal sex with influential men, including the British prince Andrew, who settled with Giuffre and stepped down by his royal duties.
Giuffre became an advocate of victims of sex trade. She died of suicide in April.
The Ministry of Justice concluded that Epstein violated more than 1,000 victims.
Epstein was hung up in his New York prison cell in August 2019, where he was waiting for the trial of the sex trade in the federal government.
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