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Change of position just before the historic vote that could allow the documents on the pedophile case to be released. “We have nothing to hide,” says Donald Trump.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, changed his position and asked Republican congressmen to approve the release of the pedophile’s documents Jeffrey Epsteinin a vote that is scheduled for this Tuesday.
“House Republicans [dos Representantes] should vote in favor of releasing the Epstein files because we have nothing to hideand it is time to overcome this Democratic hoax perpetrated by radical left lunatics to divert attention from the great success of the Republican Party,” Trump wrote on Sunday on the social network he owns, Truth Social.
The publication comes hours after North American media outlets reported that Republicans will discuss on Tuesday, in the House of Representatives — the lower house of the United States parliament, led by a Republican ally of Trump — the release of all documents related to Epstein, after having been released last week emails released in which Trump’s name resurfaced and in which Epstein admits that the current president of the USA, and that “spent several hours” with one of the victims, but it was “a dog that didn’t bark”.
The US President assured on Friday that “I didn’t know anything” about the actions of Jeffrey Epstein, who was imprisoned in 2019 (despite conspiracy theories persisting about one to silence testimony) before being tried for sexual exploitation of minors.
Trump points fingers at Clinton and many others
Trump would ask the Department of Justice and the United States federal police, the FBI, to investigate links between Epstein and several figures and institutions, including the former Democratic president Bill Clinton (president from 1993-2001).
The Republican indicated that, in addition to Clinton, the former Democratic Treasury Secretary Larry Summersthe investor, entrepreneur and co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffmanthe bank JP Morgan Chase and “many other people and institutions” must be the target of an investigation.
“Records show that these men, and many others, spent a large part of their lives with Epstein and on his ‘island’”, added the tycoon, in a message also published in Truth Social.
Trump also accused Democrats on Friday of creating a “political farce” and “fabricating” the case.
“Jeffrey Epstein was a Democrat, this is a Democrat problem, not a Republican problem,” he wrote.
During the presidential election campaign, Trump even promised “major revelations” about the Epstein case. But, since returning to power in January, the American leader has insisted that the judicial and media case over Epstein is “a political manipulation designed to weaken” the Republican Administration.
The US President has repeatedly denied any involvement in or knowledge of the crimes committed by Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking of minors. Maxwell, in a recent interview, from whom he is currently awaiting a presidential pardon.
