US President Donald Trump stated Sunday (Nov 16) he backed lawmakers’ efforts to launch extra recordsdata associated to intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, regardless of his earlier opposition to the measure.
“Home Republicans ought to vote to launch the Epstein recordsdata, as a result of we now have nothing to cover,” Trump wrote on his Fact Social platform.
The 79-year-old Republican has accused Democrats of pushing an “Epstein hoax” after emails emerged through which the disgraced financier urged Trump “knew concerning the women”.
Some critics have accused Trump of making an attempt to hide particulars about his personal alleged wrongdoing – one thing the president denies – by trying to block the vote, which has divided his usually loyal Republican get together.
The difficulty has pushed Trump away from a few of his closest allies inside his Make America Nice Once more (MAGA) motion, together with Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose 2026 re-election bid Trump withdrew an endorsement for over the weekend.
“Some ‘members’ of the Republican Social gathering are being ‘used,’ and we will not let that occur,” Trump stated in his submit, in reference to some Republican lawmakers breaking from his earlier stance.
Trump has demanded Lawyer Common Pam Bondi and the FBI examine hyperlinks between Epstein and ex-president Invoice Clinton, a Democrat, together with former Harvard president Larry Summers, who served as Clinton’s treasury secretary.
Earlier than he died in jail in 2019, Epstein had been required to register as a intercourse offender in Florida after pleading responsible in 2008 to 2 counts of solicitation of prostitution, together with from a minor.
