In a radical change from the position he had maintained until now, the president of the United States, Donald Trumpasked Republican congressmen this Sunday to vote to disseminate all the pedophile’s documents Jeffrey Epstein.
“House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files because we have nothing to hideand it is time to get ahead of this Democratic Deception perpetrated by radical left lunatics to distract from the great success of the Republican Party,” Trump wrote on TruthSocial.
The president published this message a few hours after the first information appeared in the American media that the Republicans They will vote on Tuesday in the House of Representatives to force the disclosure of all documents related to Epstein, a financier who committed suicide in 2019.
Also after the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnsonsaid he believed that a vote on the release of Justice Department documents in the Epstein case should help disprove accusations that Trump had any connection to Epstein’s abuse and trafficking of minors.
Last week, Democrats released a series of emails from Epstein in which he indicated that Trump spent “several hours” at his home with one of his victims.
The Republican legislator Thomas Massie of Kentucky, promoter of the initiative, had expressed in an interview with ABC who believed he had enough support among his co-partisans, about 100, to overcome the president’s veto power, which would imply two-thirds of the seats, when adding the Democrats.
Trump, who was a friend of the financier and later promised during the campaign to reveal all the case files on his sexual crimes, such as underage prostitutionasserted that “the Department of Justice has already provided tens of thousands of pages to the public about Epstein.”
“They are looking at various Democratic operatives (Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc.) and their relationship with Epstein, and the Congressional Oversight Committee may have whatever they are legally entitled to,” he said.
The vote will occur after intensifying pressure on the Epstein casesince Congress published last week about 20,000 files in the filewhich include emails from the financier that mention Trump and suggest that the now president knew about his crimes and that he had spent “hours” with one of the victims.
Trump on Friday denied criminal ties to Epstein, who committed suicide in 2019 in a New York jail, saying he “made up memos” about him.
In this context, he now expressed that “no one cared about Epstein when he was alive and that, if the Democrats had something, they would have spread it after the “overwhelming” electoral victory of 2024.
“Some members of the Republican Party are being ‘used,’ and we cannot allow it. Let’s start talking about the record-breaking achievements of the Republican Partyand let’s not fall into Epstein’s ‘TRAP’,” he concluded.