Days after thousands of alleged Epstein emails were released, President Trump urged House Republicans to back up measures that would compel the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, according to The New York Times. This is a shift after Trump remained silent about the files and House Republicans neglected to vote for any proposed measures by Democrats.
Trump posted on his social media platform “Truth Social” that House Republicans should vote to release files related to the sex offender “because we have nothing to hide.” He continued to say that it was time to move on from the “Democratic Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics” that deflects from the “Great Success of the Republican Party.”
The change of heart comes after the longest government shutdown in history ended after 43 days. The New York Times states that it is unclear how quickly Trump’s controlled Justice Department will release the files or if they will censor any alleged information surrounding the president.
If the bill were to pass in the House, it would still face the Senate, where 60 votes would be needed to bring up the bill. Democrats hold 47 seats and they would need 13 Republicans to join them.
Wednesday, Nov. 12, more than 20,000 emails from Epstein, some claiming the president once “spent hours at [Epstein’s] house” with a young woman who later accused Epstein of sexually trafficking her when she was a teenager.
The document fueled the allegations in which Trump has dismissed as a “hoax” to drive attention away from the government shutdown, which he blamed Democrats for, according to The New York Times.
A popular email leaked was from 2017 where Epstein wrote to former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, “I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump…Not one decent cell in his body.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt sent a statement to NPR that accused Democrats of selectively leaking emails to the liberal media to “create a fake narrative to smear President Trump.”
“These stories are nothing more than bad-faith efforts to distract from President Trump’s historic accomplishments,” Leavitt wrote in the statement. Any American with common sense, according to her, can see right through the hoax.
This recent sprout of evidence comes after the alleged 200 paged birthday book for Epstein that included a lewd drawing and letter that appears to be signed by Trump. The president called the drawing and signature fake.
