US House speaker shuts down chamber to block Epstein vote


US Assembly Speaker Mike Johnson announced that the room was postponed early and stopped the efforts to push the publication of documents about the infamous financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The movement delays a politically full vote until September in the middle of the increasing two -party pressure for transparency. To testify before the Congress, Epstein’s long -term partner Ghislaine Maxwell watched an important committee vote.
President Donald Trump’s supporters, including the supporters of Epstein -related files have recently concentrated.
Early on Tuesday, the US Department of Justice Maxwell “What do you know?”
Maxwell’s legal team said that they had discussed the BBC and that they would “always express correctly”.
On Tuesday, Johnson, who faced pressure pressure to force Epstein to release Epstein within 30 days in Capitol Hill on Tuesday, announced the recess the day before planned.
The house is now not expected to gather again until September.
Johnson defended the decision by accusing the democrats of “political games”. “We finished teaching transparency,” he said.
The decision to put the summer holiday forward gives Johnson time to correct the cracks within the Republican about how to manage the explanations in the Epstein case.
Trump’s Great Make (MAGA) Movement of America, the Ministry of Justice and the FBI on July 6, Epstein’s high -profile partners did not have a so -called customer list and his own life.
In the 2024 criminal case, the Chief Public Prosecutor Todd Blanche, who previously served as Trump’s personal lawyer, said that the evaluation was “right”.
His testimony, Epstein Case FBI records in the near future and comprehensive examination, “uncharged third parties to foresee the investigation against the investigation,” he said.
“This Ministry of Justice does not stay away from the responsibility to follow justice where the facts can go,” this Ministry of Justice, or where the facts can go. ” He said. He confirmed his plans to encounter Maxwell “soon”.
“If Ghislane Maxwell has information about anyone who committed a crime against the victims, they will hear FBI and Doj.”

Speaking to journalists from Oval Office, President Trump said that interviewing Maxwell was “suitable to do”.
The meeting of the Ministry of Justice was already criticized by some in the maga world.
Laura Loomer, a far -right conspiracy theorist with Trump’s ear, questioned why the Maxwell interview was not done on the 1st day “.
“What I want to know is that Doj says whether they have ever met Ghislaine Maxwell, or whether they have interviewed about sex crimes committed against those who are not involved,” Loomer said on social media.
Epstein, a convicted sex criminal, died in suicide in a New York prison cell in 2019 and was tried against sex smuggling.
Last week, Trump filed a petition to the court to release the Chief Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi to release all the relevant major jury statements in the case.
Maxwell was found guilty of helping Epstein’s sexual harassment of young girls. In June 2022, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
On Tuesday, his lawyer David Oscar Markus said: “We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to revealing the truth in this case.”
Earlier this year, Maxwell urged the Supreme Court to review the case. The Ministry of Justice pushed the court to reject this appeal last week.
During the 2022 hearing of Maxwell, four women, Epstein’s homes on Florida, New York, New Mexico and Virgin Islands were exploited as non -contradictory.
Annie Farmer, one of these women, said that the only sense of justice came from Maxwell’s conviction.
In an interview this week to the BBC, Epstein said that “Rollercoaster” was a “real weight” on the accusors and focused on the abusers too much, and focused too much with small new information that quit “used”.