Trump is now urging Republicans to vote in favor of releasing the Epstein pedophile papers
The president, who had been a personal friend of the tycoon, claims he has "nothing to hide" and calls the scandal a "Democratic hoax."
BarcelonaContrary to his previous statements, Donald Trump is urging Republican members of Congress to vote in favor of releasing all documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a vote scheduled for Tuesday despite the president's own opposition. "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files because we have nothing to hide, and it is high time to put an end to this Democratic hoax, perpetrated by radical left-wing lunatics to distract from the great success of the Republican Party," the US president wrote on Trud.
The post comes just hours after several media outlets reported that Republicans will vote in the House on Tuesday to force the release of all documents related to Epstein, the financier who committed suicide in 2019, following the revelations last week. of emails in which he mentions Trump. Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky, the initiative's sponsor, had assured in an ABC interview that he was confident he had enough support among his fellow Republicans—around 100—to overcome the president's veto power, which would also require securing the support of Democrats to reach a two-thirds majority. Trump, who had been a friend of Epstein and later promised during his campaign to release all the files in the case concerning his sex crimes, such as soliciting minors for prostitution, stated: "The Justice Department has already released tens of thousands of pages to the public regarding Epstein." "Several Democrats [Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc.] and their relationship with Epstein are being examined, and the congressional oversight committee can access everything to which it is legally entitled," he noted.
The vote will take place as pressure mounts around the Epstein case, after Congress last week released some 20,000 documents from the indictment, including emails from the financier that mention Trump and suggest the current president knew about his crimes and had spent "hours" with one of the victims. Trump denied any criminal ties to Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 in a New York jail, on Friday, claiming he "made things up" about him. In this context, he asserted that "nobody cared about Epstein when he was alive" and that if the Democrats had relevant information about him, they would have released it after their "overwhelming victory" in 2024.