{"id":23404,"date":"2025-11-18T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=23404"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:00:12","slug":"trump-reverses-position-on-release-of-epstein-files-calls-on-gop-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=23404","title":{"rendered":"Trump Reverses Position On Release of Epstein Files, Calls On GOP To Act"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump said Sunday that House Republicans should vote to release all files related to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, reversing his earlier stance in which he had urged GOP lawmakers not to support a measure requiring their disclosure.\u00a0The House is expected to vote Tuesday on a bill that would require the Justice Department to release all materials related to the Jeffrey Epstein case.<\/p>\n

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The vote is proceeding despite opposition from GOP leadership, after a discharge petition secured the necessary 218 signatures last week. The legislation would also need to pass the Senate and receive President Trump\u2019s signature to become law.<\/p>\n

\u201cHouse Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it\u2019s 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,\u201d\u00a0Trump wrote on Truth Social<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

As of Sunday night, the president had not indicated whether he would urge Senate Republicans to support the measure or whether he would sign it if it reaches his desk, the\u00a0New York Post reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The discharge petition was signed by all 214 House Democrats, as well as Republicans Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Nancy Mace of South Carolina, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia \u2014 a development that drew criticism from Trump.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee released more than 20,000 pages of documents provided by Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s estate.<\/p>\n

In the emails, Epstein \u2014 who died on Aug. 10, 2019, in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges \u2014 claimed that former President Trump was aware of his alleged grooming and sexual abuse of underage girls. The documents do not independently corroborate Epstein\u2019s assertions, The Post noted.<\/p>\n

\u201c[O]f course he knew about the girls as he asked [G]hislaine to stop,\u201d Epstein wrote to author Michael Wolff in a Jan. 31, 2019, email, referring to Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s recruitment of victims from the spa at Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago resort. Wolff\u2019s credibility has been widely questioned.<\/p>\n

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The next day, Epstein wrote in an email to himself that although \u201cTrump knew of it, and came to my house many times during that period,\u201d the future president \u201cnever got a massage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump and Epstein were known to be socially acquainted during the 1990s and early 2000s before reportedly falling out during a bidding dispute over a now-demolished mansion in Palm Beach, Fla.<\/p>\n

On Friday, President Trump said he would direct the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate Epstein\u2019s \u201cinvolvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attorney General Pam Bondi later confirmed that she had asked Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to lead the inquiry.<\/p>\n

\u201c[T]he House Oversight Committee can have whatever they are legally entitled to, I DON\u2019T CARE!\u201d Trump reiterated in his Sunday post. \u201cAll I do care about is that Republicans get BACK ON POINT.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody 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 \u2018members\u2019 of the Republican Party are being \u2018used,\u2019 and we can\u2019t let that happen,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLet\u2019s start talking about the Republican Party\u2019s Record Setting Achievements, and not fall into the Epstein \u2018TRAP,\u2019 which is actually a curse on the Democrats, not us. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!\u201d<\/p>\n

Newly released documents from Epstein\u2019s estate, meanwhile, show that the convicted sex offender exchanged text messages with a Democratic member of Congress during Michael Cohen\u2019s February 2019 testimony, and that those messages may have influenced the congresswoman\u2019s questioning of Cohen.<\/p>\n

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The documents, published Wednesday by the House Oversight Committee, include copies of Epstein\u2019s digital communications, emails, and text messages,\u00a0The Washington Post reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the texts, Epstein appeared to be watching the hearing in real time and notified the congresswoman \u2014 whose name was redacted in the documents \u2014 that Cohen had mentioned former Trump executive assistant Rhona Graff during his testimony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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