A small Republican rebellion helped get Congress to pass the order for Trump to release the Epstein files. Trump tried to stop the order, and once it was clear Trump was going to lose, he said he now supports it, and many Republican Congressmen who were going to vote against it, slavishly then voted for it once their dear leader gave them permission. Trump can release the Epstein files without Congress’s order, so if he really wanted to, he could just do it.