Trump reverses stance on Epstein information, presses Republicans to assist launch


A protester holds an indication associated to the discharge of the Jeffrey Epstein case recordsdata exterior the US Capitol in Washington, DC, Nov. 12, 2025.

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday referred to as on Republicans in Congress to vote to launch recordsdata associated to deceased convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, a pointy reversal from earlier resistance inside his inside circle.

“Home Republicans ought to vote to launch the Epstein recordsdata, as a result of now we have nothing to cover,” Trump mentioned in a prolonged publish on his Reality Social account. 

“And it is time to transfer on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics with the intention to deflect from the Nice Success of the Republican Occasion, together with our latest Victory on the Democrat ‘Shutdown’,” he added. 

The President went on to say that the Division of Justice has already turned over “tens of hundreds of pages” to the general public on Epstein, and that officers have been inspecting “numerous Democrat operatives.” 

Trump’s assertion comes as he faces rising stress concerning his previous ties to Epstein, who died by obvious suicide in August 2019 after being arrested on youngster intercourse trafficking prices.

The complete Home of Representatives is about to vote on a petition demanding the discharge of legal investigative recordsdata about Epstein on Tuesday.

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The DOJ has refused to make the investigative supplies public, regardless of prior guarantees by Legal professional Common Pam Bondi and different Trump administration officers to take action.

Nevertheless, the Home Oversight Committee final week launched emails that confirmed Epstein and others speaking about Trump.

Some Republican representatives like Marjorie Taylor Greene had criticized Trump’s reluctance to launch extra Epstein case supplies in latest weeks, escalating rifts within the social gathering.  

In his newest message on Reality Social, Trump argued that some “members” of the Republican Occasion have been being “used,” and that the social gathering wanted to “get BACK ON POINT.”

Trump has denied having identified about Epstein’s decades-long abuse of underage ladies and younger ladies and has said the 2 had a falling out within the early 2000s.