Committee critic government Trump on disclosure of Epstein files

O supervision committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Republicans, criticized Tuesday the administration led by Donald Trump for the inadequate conduct of public disclosure of millions of pages of documents linked to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In a report examining the way the government handled criminal investigations into Epstein and his long-standing confidant, Ghislaine Maxwell, the committee pointed out flaws of President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice for not having fulfilled the promise to ‘open’ the archives, which led Congress to pass a law that made its disclosure mandatory.

After the intervention of Congress, the Trump administration failed to disclose deadlines and concealed names of alleged accomplices, while failing to adequately protect victims, including through omissions of data made in a deficient manner, which ended up exposing sensitive information from these people, according to the report cited by the Associated Press (AP).

The 137-page document, released by the Republican Party-controlled committee, appears almost a year after Congress passed, and Trump sanctioned, the law requiring the Department of Justice to make public the records related to the late sexual offender.

The report also appears shortly after the mid-term elections last week, in which Republicans suffered significant losses in the two Chambers of Congress, a scenario that occurred after a campaign in which the disclosure of government documents about Epstein became a recurring theme.

The Democrats used the way the Trump administration handled the files to accuse Republicans of protecting rich and influential individuals, suggesting that Trump's past relationship with Epstein would have exposed him to possible unethical activities.

The report, in turn, states that “the absence of Trump’s involvement is confirmed by several testimonies collected in interviews or interviews with several people.”.

The Department of Justice released most of the so-called Epstein archives between December and January.

In all, over 3 million pages of documents, as well as over 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, were revealed.

The way the then Attorney General Pam Bondi handled Epstein's files contributed to his resignation in April.

The report also examined how the federal authorities investigated Epstein almost two decades ago, but did not bring charges, even after several minors reported to the authorities who were paid to perform sexual massages to Epstein.