U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks during a press conference to discuss the Epstein Files Transparency Act on Capitol Hill on Sept. 3. The House is set to vote on the bill on Nov. 18.

From the time Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in a New York City jail cell in August, 2019, he’s been at the centre of conspiracy theories on the U.S. political right. The theories claimed that the financier and child sex trafficker had not died by suicide, as the authorities said, but was murdered to cover up the participation of other powerful people in his crimes.

At the urging of his base, Donald Trump promised before the 2024 election to release the government’s investigative files on Mr. Epstein – a former friend of his, with whom Mr. Trump says he had a falling out before Mr. Epstein’

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