House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday the Trump administration should release all of the files related to the disgraced late-financier Jeffrey Epstein, and Congress should intervene to force that release if the administration doesn’t act on its own.

Jeffries said there’s no good reason for the Justice Department to keep those details under wraps unless officials have something to hide — a veiled nod to speculation that Trump, who had crossed paths with Epstein in years past, is in the files.

“The American people deserve to know the truth,” he told reporters in the Capitol. “What, if anything, is the Trump administration and the Department of Justice hiding?”

Epstein died in 2019 in a Manhattan prison cell, where he was awaiting trial after his arrest for the sex trafficking of minors. But his case has been a rallying cry for right-wing conspiracy theorists — many of them avid Trump supporters — who have alleged the government is in possession of Epstein’s client list but hasn’t released it to protect powerful “elites” in high places of government........

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