WASHINGTON DC, USA. — Tonight, (US time), US President and alleged pedophile Donald Trump posted to his ‘Truth Social’ platform that “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files.”
“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,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social media shortly after landing at Joint Base Andrews following a weekend in Florida.
Democrats and some Republicans have been pushing a measure that would force the Justice Department to make public more documents from the case.
The president’s shift is an implicit acknowledgement that supporters of the measure have enough votes to pass the House, although it has an unclear future in the Senate.
“There could be 100 or more” votes from Republicans, said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., among the lawmakers discussing the legislation on Sunday news show appearances. “I’m hoping to get a veto-proof majority on this legislation when it comes up for a vote.”
Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., introduced a discharge petition in July to force a vote on their bill. That is a rarely successful tool that allows a majority of members to bypass House leadership and force a floor vote.
“Republican congressman Thomas Massie challenged Donald Trump on Sunday over whether the US president is making a “last-ditch effort” to keep the full files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from becoming public by ordering a fresh investigation,” Massie told The Guardian.
Trump’s post was published at 2115hrs (9.15pm US EST) on Sunday evening, US time. (1.15pm, Monday, November 17, Australian Eastern Daylight Time)
-With AP.
