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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Andrew Feinberg

Trump says he’ll sign bill to release Epstein files but claims ‘all’ the dead sex offender’s ‘friends were Democrats’

President Donald Trump on Monday said he’d sign the bipartisan bill forcing the Department of Justice to release case files from probes into dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein if the House and Senate pass it and send it to his desk.

Asked if he’d sign the bill known as the Epstein Files Transparency Act during an Oval Office event alongside FIFA president Gianni Infantino, an uncharacteristically hoarse Trump told reporters: “I do want to sign.”

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