Trump signs bill to release Epstein files with documents set to be published within 30 days
The President signed the bill which has passed through the House and Senate despite his earlier opposition
Donald Trump has announced the "truth will soon be revealed" after signing the bill which approved the release of the Epstein files.
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On Truth Social, Trump wrote: "Democrats have used the “Epstein” issue, which affects them far more than the Republican Party, in order to try and distract from our AMAZING Victories.
He added: "Perhaps the truth about these Democrats, and their associations with Jeffrey Epstein, will soon be revealed, because I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
"As everyone knows, I asked Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to pass this Bill in the House and Senate, respectively. Because of this request, the votes were almost unanimous in favor of passage."
His signing of the bill makes the public reveal of the files law - after votes to release the files passed through the House of Representatives and the Senate in recent days.
Earlier on Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested the files would be released within 30 days of the bill being signed.
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The fight to make the documents public has been overshadowing the Trump administration for months.
Several high-profile Republicans fell out with Trump in demanding all materials be made public before the President backed the release on Friday.
The vote was called for after a discharge petition was backed by 218 lawmakers, including several rebel Republicans.
Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has fallen out with Trump over her part in securing the document's release.
Speaking before Tuesday's House vote, the firebrand Congresswoman wrote on X: "Today’s vote to finally force the release of the Epstein files is a major victory for the survivors who’ve waited decades for the truth.
"I stood with them this morning, the survivors who told the FBI, told law enforcement, begged for help, and were ignored.
"This vote should’ve been easy. Instead, the original four — Massie, Mace, Boebert, and myself — had to fight through months of intimidation just to get the discharge petition to 218 signatures.
"Americans are done being lied to. These survivors deserve full transparency. Every document, every truth, every name. And if those names reach me, I will read them on the House floor."
After the House voted to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Bill's author Representative Thomas Massie told reporters that "there's becoming a reckoning in Britain that needs to happen in the United States."
Referencing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's loss of royal titles due to his Epstein links, Rep Massie added: "A prince lost his title, the ambassador to the United States lost his job. We need to see those same kind of consequences here."
The co-author of the Bill echoed Massie's sentiments.
On the steps of Congress, Democratic Representative Ro Khanna said: "I do think that [former] Prince Andrew does need to come and testify at our oversight committee, and that can be bipartisan."
She added: "I share [Massie's] view that the urgency that the British people have shown in getting justice needs to inspire an urgency here in America".
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President Trump changed his position on the release of the files last week, directing House Republicans to vote in favour of the motion.
This came directly after it became clear that several of his own party would vote to release the documents.
In a shift of tone, Trump also announced he was directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate former President Bill Clinton for his ties to Epstein.
Trump appeared to try to deflect scrutiny over Epstein's crimes to Democrats alleged to have been close to the dead paedophile.
On Friday, he wrote on Truth Social: "Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures, I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him.
"This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats."