With the U.S. House of Representatives poised to vote overwhelmingly Tuesday for a bill demanding that all Department of Justice documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein be released, Donald Trump has belatedly jumped on the bandwagon.

For months, the U.S. president opposed the release of the so-called Epstein files, despite promising transparency on the issue during last year's election campaign.

Although key figures in Trump's White House — JD Vance , Kash Patel and Pam Bondi — championed the release of the files when Joe Biden was president, the Trump administration and Republicans allies in Congress have manoeuvred to keep them under wraps.

Trump's stated rationale for suddenly reversing course and telling Republicans to vote for the files' release wasn't a

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