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Some United States lawmakers, including Republicans, are divided over the President Donald Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, fuelling partisan tensions over transparency and accountability.
Elon Musk, Trump’s former adviser and billionaire tech mogul, had, in an X post, accused the US president of being in the Epstein files, claiming that was the real reason the files have not been released.
Musk and Trump traded insults after the Tesla chief executive officer (CEO) left his role at the White House.
Musk said he later regretted some of his comments; most of the posts have now been deleted.
But the effects of his assertion have lingered on in the US Congress as lawmakers have begun to put pressure on Pam Bondi, attorney general, to release Epstein’s client list.
Epstein, a wealthy financier, died by suicide in his New York City jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
He and Trump knew each other, but the US president has never been implicated in Epstein’s charges of abuse of underage girls.Last week, the US justice department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said they have reviewed the files. Thecable
