The president of the United States, Donald Trump, asked Republican congressmen this Sunday to vote to release all the documents of the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a vote that is scheduled for Tuesday despite the president’s long-standing opposition.
“House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files because we have nothing to hide, and it is time to get ahead of this Democratic hoax perpetrated by radical left lunatics to distract from the great success of the Republican Party,” Trump writes in a message posted on the social network he owns, TruthSocial.
Congress will vote on Tuesday to require the publication of files to be declassified related to Epstein, a financier who committed suicide in 2019, after House Democrats released three new emails last week and in one of them, Epstein writes that Trump “spent hours” at the financier’s home with one of his victims.
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 prostitution of minors, asserts in his message that “the Department of Justice has already delivered tens of thousands of pages to the public about Epstein.” “They are looking at several 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 says.
The US president on Friday denied criminal ties to Epstein, stating that he “made up memos” about him. In this context, he now maintains that “no one cared about Epstein when he was alive and that, if the Democrats had something, they would have spread it after the “landslide” 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 Party, and let’s not fall into Epstein’s trap,” he concludes.
The change in position of the US president comes after a petition to force a vote on the declassification of the files reached the necessary votes with the support of some Republicans. Several of those who make up that group have predicted that, if it reaches the plenary session, dozens of Republicans would vote in favor, with Kentucky representative Thomas Massie stating that the number could reach a hundred, almost half of the 2019 who occupy the Republican bench. If the House of Representatives approves the measure, it would still have to be approved by the Senate and signed by Trump for publication to take effect. Last week, these two steps still seemed uncertain, but Trump’s statement suggests they could be carried out. In the Senate, the proposal could need up to 13 Republican supports.
