Trump’s DOJ set to share Epstein files with Congress: Live updates

Once the House Oversight panel has received the files from the DOJ, the committee plans to make public some of the Epstein files, a spokesperson confirmed to CNN.

However, it is not clear precisely when that will be.

Here’s Isobel Keane with the latest.

Kentucky Rep. Comer, the Republican chair of the Oversight Committee, said in a statement that the DOJ has many records and gave it time to ensure the identification of victims and any child sexual abuse material is redacted.

The Justice Department is expected to start turning over documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation to the House Oversight Committee from today.

Earlier this month, the committee subpoenaed the DOJ regarding the criminal case against the late convicted sex offender and financier that has recently shaken the top levels of President Donald Trump’s administration and been a consistent magnet for conspiracy theories.

The DOJ and FBI’s abrupt announcement in early July that Epstein left behind no “client list” and that he died by suicide in a New York City jail cell in August 2019 infuriated Trump’s supporters, many of whom had hoped to see the disgraced billionaire’s powerful associates brought to justice and believed he may have been murdered in prison to silence him.

Trump himself has not been accused of any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein but was once friendly with him socially in New York and Florida and has struggled to make the story go away and is suing The Wall Street Journal for suggesting he once sent the late pedophile a “bawdy” birthday doodle.

Here’s Josh Marcus on the files handover.

Hello and welcome to The Independent’s live coverage of Donald Trump’s administration as the Justice Department is expected to turn over documents relating to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation to the House Oversight Committee.