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Yet this was released under their term and not previous presidential terms

• bigyabai 9mo ago
  > previous presidential terms Term, not plural. There was one (1) interceding administration following Epstein's death. Trump promised that the Epstein files would be released if he was reelected, and then withheld files. Congress passed a bill remediating this, hence the newer tranche of files: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein_Files_Transparency_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein_Files_Transparency_Act
  • Grisu_FTP 9mo ago
    Im not too deep into USA politics and have very very bad memory so i dont remember how it went down. The Wikipedia article you linked says it was signed by trump. >and then withheld files. So did he sign that willingly in the end? Did he have to sign it? Did he cave because he said publicly he would?
    • danans 9mo ago
      A super majority in Congress voted for the files to be the released, which is enough to override a veto, so he had to sign it to save face.
      • Grisu_FTP 9mo ago
        thx for the info!!