“Jeffrey Epstein, who was indicted by Trump's Justice Department in 2019 (not Democrats!), was a lifelong Democrat, contributed thousands of dollars to Democratic politicians, and was deeply associated with many well-known Democratic officials,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website Wednesday evening.
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“Perhaps the truth about these Democrats and their ties to Jeffrey Epstein will soon be revealed because I have just signed a bill to release the Epstein files,” Trump said.
“As everyone knows, I asked the Speaker of the House [Reprezentantów] Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune to advance this bill in the House and Senate. Due to this request, the votes were almost unanimous and supported its adoption. At my direction, the Justice Department has already turned over nearly fifty thousand pages of documents to Congress,” the president continued.
“Please don't forget that the Biden administration has not released a single file or page of documents related to Democrat Epstein, nor has they ever even talked about him,” Trump's post read.
The president accused Democrats of using the Epstein case — which he says concerns them much more than the Republican Party — to try to distract the public from the administration's successes.
A breakthrough after weeks of waiting
The US Congress passed a law ordering the Ministry of Justice to disclose the full files of the Epstein case on Tuesday. The breakthrough occurred when, after weeks of delay and resistance from Republicans and the president, a majority of congressmen supported a petition forcing the vote. On Tuesday, the president said he would sign the bill if Congress passes it.
Although the White House pressured Republicans who supported the petition to withdraw their signatures, in the end, in the face of certain defeat, Trump urged the party to vote for the bill, arguing that he had “nothing to hide” and that the Epstein case was a matter for Democrats, not Republicans.
So far, the Ministry of Justice has published approximately 30,000 pages of documents in the Epstein case, but a significant part of them has been truncated. 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 former President 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.
Connections between Trump and Epstein
Trump was a longtime friend of Epstein, who was convicted in 2008 of soliciting minors for prostitution, and in 2019 hanged himself in prison before a federal trial on more serious charges. Despite knowing each other for many years, Trump claimed that he kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club because he “stealed” his masseuses. On Tuesday, however, he said the reason for breaking off relations with him was because he was a “sick pervert.”
However, in emails released by Congress last week, Epstein suggested that Trump “knew about the girls.” In a 2011 correspondence with his partner Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein wrote that Trump spent “hours at his home” with one of his underage victims, Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre herself testified that Trump never behaved inappropriately towards her. In other emails, Epstein claimed that he “knows how screwed up Trump is” and argued months before his death in 2019 that he was the only person who could bring him down.
