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The US leader announced on Wednesday night that he had signed the bill decisively endorsed by American lawmakers that mandates the Department of Justice to release more records related to Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex offender.

The move comes after months of pushback from the president and his political allies in Congress that fractured his Maga base and created rifts with certain loyal followers.

Donald Trump had resisted making public the Epstein documents, calling the issue a "fabrication" and condemning those who wanted to make the files available, despite vowing their publication on the election circuit.

Nevertheless he changed direction in recent days after it was evident the legislative chamber would approve the bill. Trump stated: "Everything is transparent".

It's not clear what the department will make public in as a result of the bill – the legislation specifies a host of possible documents that should be made public, but provides exceptions for specific records.

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The bill mandates the attorney general to make unclassified Epstein-connected documents open for review "in a searchable and downloadable format", covering all investigations into Epstein, his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, flight logs and travel records, people mentioned or identified in relation to his crimes, institutions that were connected with his human trafficking or money operations, protection agreements and other plea agreements, internal communications about prosecution choices, documentation of his confinement and demise, and information about any file deletions.

The justice department will have one month to provide the files. The bill contains specific exclusions, such as redactions of personal details of victims or individual documents, any depictions of youth molestation, releases that would compromise active investigations or legal cases and representations of demise or abuse.

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