The Epstein files release gets a new twist after US President Donald Trump took a U-turn and urged House Republicans to vote for document disclosure.
According to The Guardian, President Trump, in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, late on Sunday, November 16, suggested that Republicans in the US House of Representatives should vote to release documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The 79-year-old ahead of the vote wrote, “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.’”
"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. Some 'members' of the Republican Party are being 'used', and we can’t let that happen," he added.
This came days after Trump withdrew his endorsement for long-time ally Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene after she refused to vote against the release of the disgraced financier’s files during the House vote.
Notably, a House committee last week released some of the Epstein documents that also included emails in which the paedophile mentioned Trump and claimed he “knew about the girls” and "spent hours at my house" with a victim of sex trafficking.
He also referred to the president as a dog that hasn't barked."
Meanwhile, Trump said that his ties with Epstein ended before his convictions and after he learnt about the financier’s wrongdoings. He also called sex offenders a Democrat problem.
