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House votes near unanimously to release the Epstein files

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Here is an X post from the one representative who voted against it - Clay Higgins of Louisiana - explaining why he voted against it:

https://x.com/RepClayHiggins/status/1990868089056219267

> The Senate has unanimously agreed to pass the House-backed bill forcing the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein case files as soon as it’s received from the chamber. Majority leader [...] said that would happen tomorrow.

> Next steps: The Senate will not have to take any further action, and the bill will be sent to President Donald Trump, who has said he’d sign the legislation, a stark reversal in his position.

A search for Epstein here, but not Epshteyn: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=1&prefix=false&qu...

Epstein and Ken Starr, who tried to humiliatingly impeach Clinton for lying about unapproved undisclosed infidelity after he had lied about not having inhaled.

Epstein and Alan Dershowitz, who defended Trump in Congress's inadequate impeachment proceedings.

"EPSTEIN FILES Vol. 3: 'All the President's Men' were All the Trafficker'" https://youtube.com/watch?v=OhufhCv9TQA

So this was their pimp and cannabis and MDMA dealer, who was collecting compromising information and working for foreign intelligence services?

Russia calls that "kompromat". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat

Are they whitewashing something else by drawing attention to this?

Why did Trump hire Palm Beach prosecutor Alex Acosta who had given Epstein such a sweet plea deal?

Donald and Melania Trump appear in the film Zoolander (2001) with male model manager Maury Ballstein and journalist Matilda Jeffries.

In the film Zoolander, Derek Zoolander attends a secretive rehab spa brainwashing program.

Zoolander: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoolander

(Ben Stiller (Night at the Museum,) is an actor who also helps out the United Nations. Owen Wilson (Drillbit Taylor,) is an Actor who also helps in his own special way.)

"JPMorgan processed over $1B for Jeffrey Epstein despite internal concerns over sex offender status: report" https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/jpmorgan-processed-over...

epstein jp morgan https://www.google.com/search?q=epstein+jp+morgan&oq=epstein...

> JPMorgan Chase was the primary bank for Jeffrey Epstein for over 15 years, during which time it handled more than $1 billion in transactions despite numerous internal red flags and concerns. The bank has since paid $365 million in settlements related to its association with him

"How J.P. Morgan enabled Jeffrey Epstein" https://www.npr.org/2025/09/09/nx-s1-5535548/how-j-p-morgan-...

> "At the peak, he had about $300 million in his accounts."

"Continuing Epstein Investigation, Wyden Releases New Analysis Detailing How Top JPMorgan Chase Executives Enabled Epstein’s Sex Trafficking Operation" (2015-11-20) https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/continui...

"Epstein's sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, a U.S. Virgin Islands lawsuit says" (2022) https://www.npr.org/2022/12/30/1146221454/epstein-jpmorgan-v...

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