The Democrats of the Chamber are looking for a copy of Jeffrey EpsteinThe alleged “birthday book” of 2003 which would include a “debauchery” letter signed by President Trump to the condemned sex offender.
Friday, in a letter to the representatives of the succession of Epstein, the representative Ro Khanna and the democratic representative of the Democrat, Robert Garcia, both of California, said that the request comes in the midst of the “Trump’s desperate attempts to repress the public interest in the publication of the files” concerning the disgraced financier of Mr. Trump.
“Recent public reports indicate that Jeffrey Epstein’s succession is in possession of a commonly called document ‘the birthday book’ ‘, compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Mr. Epstein, which has a clear relevance for this affair,” they wrote in a letter.
“The book is relevant to monitoring the current congress on the treatment by the Ministry of Justice of the Investigation and the accusation of Epstein, as well as the Trump administration’s decision to declassify and publish only a handful of documents from its Epstein files while retaining others from the public,” said the letter.
Democratic legislators asked for a “complete and not expelled copy” from the alleged birthday book at the latest on August 10. The Chamber’s supervisory committee continues its own investigation into the Epstein saga and separated a summons to the assignment for Maxwell, on August 11 of the financier.
Epstein, 66 found dead In his cell of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York on August 10, 2019, while waiting for a trial on federal accusations of sex trafficking.
Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal has published a story This said that a letter signed by Mr. Trump was included in the book with letters from other friends and Epstein acquaintances. The president denied the report, qualifying the letter as “false”.
Last week, Trump filed a defamation complaint against the Wall Street Journal, the journalists who wrote history, and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, alleging that the newspaper’s claims were “false, defamatory, without foundation and denigrant”. The trial, which also accuses the newspaper of “clear journalistic failures”, includes two defamation leaders, each seeking at least $ 10 billion.
A spokesperson for Dow Jones said in a statement: “We have fully confidence in the rigor and accuracy of our reports, and we vigorously defend against any trial.”
Trump previously recognized a friendship with Epstein years ago, but said they had a “fall”.
The Trump administration was faced with an increase pressure to disclose More details on Epstein, which was found guilty of having requested the prostitution of a minor before a state court of Florida in 2008 under a controversial advocacy which allowed him to serve only 13 months in prison. Last week, Trump ordered the Attorney General Pam Bondi to request the release of testimony from the Grand Jury linked to Epstein. One of the requests from the Ministry of Justice to a question of the Grand Jury’s transcriptions was denied.
Trump’s order came after the Ministry of Justice and the FBI published a memo Declaring that Epstein did not have an incriminating “list of customers”, did not try to sing leading figures and died by suicide. The memo has drawn reactions through the political spectrum, including certain fervent donors, in part because Bondi and other administration figures had promised to disclose much more information on Epstein.
Meanwhile, Todd Blanche, the second manager of the highest justice of justice, met maxwell At the office of the American lawyer in Tallahassee, Florida, to discuss Epstein more than 1 ½ days of interviews. Her lawyer said: “She didn’t hold anything back.”
Maxwell is serving a 20 -year sentence in a low -security federal prison in Tallahassee after being sentenced three years ago for helping Epstein sexually abusing minor girls.
Trump dodged questions about a possible forgiveness for Maxwell on Friday, telling journalists after landing in Scotland, “I don’t know about the conversation” between Maxwell and Blanche.
“Many people put pardons for me. Obviously, it’s not the time to talk about pardons,” said the president.
Before his trip, journalists continued to question Mr. Trump about the Epstein affair.
“People should really focus on how the country is fine,” he insisted. He closed another question saying, “I don’t want to talk about it.”
Melissa Quinn And
contributed to this report.