‘Nothing To Hide’: Trump Now Demands House Republicans Vote To Make Epstein Files Public

President Donald Trump on Sunday night called for House Republicans to back a vote compelling the Justice Department to release all files connected to convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump’s call comes just days after he directed the Justice Department to investigate Epstein’s connections to powerful Democrats like former President Bill Clinton. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) expects a vote this week on a bill that, if approved, would release the Epstein files. If passed in the House, the proposal would need 60 votes in the Senate to advance to Trump’s desk. 

“As I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the Fake News Media, House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent Victory on the Democrat ‘Shutdown,’” Trump wrote on Truth Social. 

Trump said that the Justice Department had already turned over tens of pages of documents related to Epstein to the public and said that the House Oversight Committee could have access to whatever documents it was legally entitled to. 

“Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive and, if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it before our Landslide Election Victory,” Trump added. “Some ‘members’ of the Republican Party are being ‘used,’ and we can’t let that happen. Let’s start talking about the Republican Party’s Record Setting Achievements, and not fall into the Epstein ‘TRAP,’ which is actually a curse on the Democrats, not us.”

In the same post, the president referenced his directive to the Justice Department last week, saying that it was “looking at various Democrat operatives (Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc.) and their relationship to Epstein.” In a later post, Trump said that Democrats who had “sleazy relationships” with Epstein should be prosecuted. 

Rather than dwelling on Epstein, Trump said Republicans should focus on the economy, tax cuts, the trillions in pledged investment, and his efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. In recent months, Trump has expressed frustration with questions about Epstein. 

Last week, Democrats released multiple Epstein emails, including correspondence in which the pedophile claimed that Trump “knew about the girls” and “spent hours” at Epstein’s home with one of the sexual abuser’s victims. The House GOP Oversight Committee released an additional 20,000 pages of documents on Wednesday, and the White House said that the contents confirmed that Trump did not take part in Epstein’s sex crimes.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt noted that the unnamed victim in the emails was the late Virginia Giuffre, who never accused Trump of any wrongdoing.