In reversal, Trump urges Republicans to vote to launch Epstein recordsdata

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday urged his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the discharge of recordsdata associated to the late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, reversing his earlier resistance to such a transfer.

Trump's submit on his Fact Social got here after Home Speaker Mike Johnson mentioned earlier that he believed a vote on releasing Justice Division paperwork within the Epstein case ought to assist put to relaxation allegations that Trump had any connection to Epstein's abuse and trafficking of underage women.

"Home Republicans ought to vote to launch the Epstein recordsdata, as a result of we've nothing to cover," Trump wrote on Sunday night time. "And it’s time to maneuver on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics with a view to deflect from the Nice Success of the Republican Get together, together with our current Victory on the Democrat 'Shutdown'."

Though Trump and Epstein have been photographed collectively a long time in the past, the president has mentioned the 2 males fell out earlier than Epstein's convictions. Emails launched final week by a Home committee confirmed the disgraced financier believed Trump "knew concerning the women," although it was not clear what that phrase meant.

Trump, who has not too long ago dismissed the Epstein recordsdata as a Democratic smear marketing campaign, has since instructed the Division of Justice to research distinguished Democrats' ties to Epstein.

The battle over disclosure of extra Epstein-related paperwork, a topic Trump himself campaigned on, has opened a rift with a few of his allies in Congress.

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U.S. President Donald Trump attacked his vocal Republican ally, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, on social media seemingly over her push to launch the Epstein recordsdata. The feud is dividing the MAGA motion and fuelling questions on Trump's ties to the convicted intercourse offender. A lot of Trump's most loyal supporters consider the federal government is withholding delicate paperwork about Epstein, a convicted intercourse offender who died by suicide in jail in 2019, that may reveal the late financier's ties to highly effective public figures.

Trump late on Friday withdrew his help for U.S. Consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, lengthy considered one of his staunchest supporters in Congress, following her criticism of Republicans on sure points, together with the dealing with of the Epstein recordsdata.

U.S. Consultant Ro Khanna, a California Democrat and an authentic sponsor of the petition calling for a vote on the recordsdata' launch, mentioned on Sunday that he anticipated greater than 40 Republicans to vote in favor.