It is almost certain that the House would pass the Epstein bill if it came up under a rule. There are 433 House members currently, so it would need 217 votes if all members are voting and present. If the bill is brought up under a rule, the earliest we could see a vote is likely Tuesday.

Epstein vote: On top of the newly released emails, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., swore in Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., whom he had refused to seat when the House was out of town during the shutdown after her Sept. 23 special election victory.

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Jeffrey Epstein said in 2018 he could "take down" Donald Trump, in an exchange released along with thousands of other files.

President Donald Trump announced in 2017 that his first official overseas trip would be to the Middle East. An unnamed political figure, possibly from Kuwait, wanted to know how to deal with the new,

Newly released files from Jeffrey Epstein include correspondence with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to Washington.

The e-mails—unverified, typo-ridden assertions from a man who is not around to testify about them—do not constitute specific proof of anything, it should be underscored, just fodder for endless new rounds of questions now that politicians in Trump’s own party have chosen to release them. Who knows what else is lurking in there?