“As I said Friday evening on Air Force One to the media spreading fake news, Republicans in the House of Representatives should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide and it's time to end this democratic swindle of radical leftist lunatics who want to distract from the great success of the Republican Party,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social social media site.
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He also noted that some members of his party are “used” by Democrats, who, for political reasons, want to focus attention on the Epstein case. He noted, however, that the Chamber may receive any documents “it is entitled to by law.”
Donald Trump and the Epstein files
So far, Trump and the White House have put strong pressure on Republican congressmen not to support a bill requiring the Justice Department to fully disclose Epstein's files. These efforts proved unsuccessful, because four Republican congressmen signed a Democratic petition to force a vote on the issue. Thanks to this, the vote is to take place in the coming week and the success of the initiative is almost certain regardless of the president's position. The further fate of the legislation is unclear because it also requires a vote in the Senate and the president's signature.
So far, the Ministry of Justice has published approx. 30 thousand pages of documents in the Epstein case, but much of it has been cut. The Trump administration has so far claimed that it cannot disclose the rest of the documents for legal reasons.
On Friday, Trump – in response to increasingly frequent questions about his relationship with Epstein in the light of the pedophile's emails revealed by Congress – ordered the prosecutor's office to open an investigation into the relationships of Bill Clinton and other Democrats and people supporting them with Epstein. Due to the new investigation, the Ministry of Justice may refuse to publish the files covered by the investigation.
Trump's earlier efforts to block the project led, among other things, to his open conflict with one of the president's staunchest allies in the House of Representatives, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. On Friday, Trump officially withdrew his support for the politician, whom he called a “traitor.” The far-right congresswoman said in a Sunday interview with CNN that she began receiving threats because of Trump's attacks.
Referring to her words during a conversation with journalists at the Florida airport, President Trump downplayed the matter. -Who are you talking about, Marjorie Traitor? [ang. zdrajczyni] Greene? I don't think her life is in danger. Honestly, I don't think anyone cares about her, he said.
