Bangladesh, Feb. 3 -- US President Donald Trumps renewed denial of any meaningful association with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has once again pushed one of the most politically radioactive scandals of the past decade back into the global spotlight. The controversy was reignited following the release of the final tranche of documents under the Epstein Files Transparency Act-legislation signed into law by Trump himself in November-forcing the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to make public millions of pages of investigative material.

The scale of the disclosure is unprecedented: more than three million pages of documents, around 2,000 videos, and roughly 180,000 images tied to federal criminal investigations...