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REPUBLICAN Congress members are calling on President Donald Trump to release evidence related to the case of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The effort by two GOP Tennessee representatives comes after Trump signed an executive order to declassify documents about the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Epstein died in August 2019 while awaiting trial in New York for federal sex trafficking charges.
The disgraced financier, 59, was found dead in his jail cell at the Manhattan Detention Complex.
A medical examiner ruled his death a suicide.
Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn and Representative Tim Burchett, both of Tennessee, told the Daily Mail they have been fighting for years to unseal the documents related to Epstein’s case.
Blackburn told the outlet she has pushed for the release of unredacted versions of Epstein’s flight logs and the complete version of Ghislaine Maxwell‘s “little black book.”
The explosive contact book contained a list of names and phone numbers of some of the world’s most powerful and wealthy individuals, according to court documents.
A few pages of the book were released in a redacted version during Maxwell’s 2021 child sex trafficking trial.
However, the full unredacted version has never been released to the public.
Maxwell, a British socialite who groomed and sex trafficked young girls for Epstein, is currently serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted of child sex trafficking charges in December 2021.
“Jeffrey Epstein built a disgusting global sex trafficking network that caused irreparable damage to countless women,” Blackburn told the Daily Mail.
“Americans deserve to know exactly who was affiliated with this network.
“This is not about celebrities – this is about what happened to victims and survivors.”
Burchett repeated Blackburn’s sentiment, telling the outlet the time to release the Epstein files is now as Republicans control both the House and Senate.
‘EVERYTHING WILL BE REVEALED’
On Thursday, Trump signed the order to release the JFK assassination files, promising “everything will be revealed.”
“That’s a big one, huh?” the president said as he signed off the order – a promise he made to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his secretary of Health and Human Services nominee and nephew of JFK.
“A lot of people are waiting for this for a long… for years, for decades. Everything will be revealed.”
Trump released a portion of the JFK files during his first term in the White House, but now, the last files that remained under seal are due to be released to the public.
President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.