A protester holds a motion related to the merchandise of the Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit files extracurricular the US Capitol successful Washington, DC, Nov. 12, 2025.
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U.S. President Donald Trump connected Sunday called connected Republicans successful Congress to ballot to merchandise files related to deceased convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, a crisp reversal from previous absorption wrong his interior circle.
"House Republicans should ballot to merchandise the Epstein files, due to the fact that we person thing to hide," Trump said successful a lengthy station connected his Truth Social account.
"And it's clip to determination connected from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics successful bid to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our caller Victory connected the Democrat 'Shutdown'," helium added.
The President went connected to accidental that the Department of Justice has already turned implicit "tens of thousands of pages" to the nationalist connected Epstein, and that officials were examining "various Democrat operatives."
Trump's connection comes arsenic helium faces increasing unit regarding his past ties to Epstein, who died by evident termination in August 2019 aft being arrested connected kid enactment trafficking charges.
The afloat House of Representatives is acceptable to ballot connected a petition demanding the merchandise of criminal investigative files astir Epstein connected Tuesday.
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The DOJ has refused to marque the investigative materials public, contempt anterior promises by Attorney General Pam Bondi and different Trump medication officials to bash so.
However, the House Oversight Committee past week released emails that showed Epstein and others talking astir Trump.
Some Republican representatives similar Marjorie Taylor Greene had criticized Trump's reluctance to merchandise much Epstein lawsuit materials successful caller weeks, escalating rifts successful the party.
In his latest connection connected Truth Social, Trump argued that immoderate "members" of the Republican Party were being "used," and that the enactment needed to "get BACK ON POINT."
Trump has denied having known astir Epstein's decades-long maltreatment of underage girls and young women and has stated the 2 had a falling retired successful the aboriginal 2000s.
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