U.S. President Donald Trump called on Republican congressmen to vote to release all documents on child molester Jeffrey Epstein, a vote scheduled for Tuesday despite the president’s longstanding opposition.
“Republicans in the House (of Representatives) should vote to release the Epstein files because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Deception perpetrated by radical leftist lunatics to distract from the great success of the Republican Party,” Trump wrote on TruthSocial.
Trump asks Republicans to vote to release Epstein documents
His release comes hours after media reports that Republicans will vote Tuesday in the House of Representatives to force the release of all documents related to Epstein, a financier who committed suicide in 2019, after emails were revealed last week in which he mentions Trump.
Republican legislator Thomas Massie of Kentucky, the initiative’s sponsor, had expressed in an interview with ABC that he believed he had enough support among his co-sponsors, 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 on the campaign trail to release all the case files on his sex crimes, including underage prostitution, asserted that “the Justice Department has already turned over tens of thousands of pages to the public on ‘Epstein.'”
“They’re looking at various Democratic operatives (Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc.) and their relationship with Epstein, and the Congressional Oversight Committee can have whatever they’re legally entitled to,” he noted.
The vote will come in the wake of intensifying pressure on the Epstein case, as Congress last week released some 20,000 files from the dossier, including emails from the financier that mention Trump and suggest that the now-president knew of his crimes and 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, by claiming he “made up memos” about him.
In this context, he now expressed that “nobody cared about Epstein when he was alive and that, if the Democrats had anything, they would have spread it after the “overwhelming victory” of the 2024 election.
“Some members of the Republican Party are being ‘used,’ and we cannot allow it. Let’s start talking about the record accomplishments of the Republican Party, and not fall for Epstein’s ‘TRAP,'” he concluded.
With information from EFE
