President Donald Trump fired off an indignant Reality Social submit on Sunday by which he mentioned Republicans ought to vote for the Home invoice that may power him to launch the Epstein recordsdata, but continued to take care of that the recordsdata are a “hoax”—his favourite time period for a problem that makes him look dangerous.
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Trump went on to insist in all caps that “I DON’T CARE” concerning the recordsdata—an apparent lie as he has spent months refusing to make recordsdata public and even waged an intense stress marketing campaign on Republicans to get them to vote in opposition to the invoice that may power him to launch the paperwork.
Final week, he even summoned Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) to the Scenario Room—the place top-secret discussions happen—to attempt to persuade her to take away her title from the petition that’s now requiring Home Speaker Mike Johnson to place the Epstein recordsdata invoice up for a vote.
In actual fact, all the Epstein recordsdata scandal led to a now ugly and public breakup with Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who criticized Trump for not releasing the recordsdata.
Whereas Trump mentioned Republicans ought to vote for the bipartisan invoice that may power him to launch the Epstein recordsdata, he criticized the GOP lawmakers who’ve joined Democrats of their efforts to make the paperwork public.
“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,” Trump wrote. “Some ‘members’ of the Republican Party are being ‘used,’ and we can’t let that happen. Let’s start talking about the Republican Party’s Record Setting Achievements, and not fall into the Epstein ‘TRAP,’ which is actually a curse on the Democrats, not us. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
All of this can be a complete about-face from his earlier calls for that Republicans vote in opposition to releasing the Epstein recordsdata.
“Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap,” Trump wrote Wednesday in a submit on Reality Social of the Epstein recordsdata invoice vote, including there, “should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else.”
Trump once more criticized Republicans who needed to vote to launch the recordsdata, writing in a Friday submit that Republicans who wish to vote for the invoice are “weak” and “foolish.”
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It is unclear how the Epstein recordsdata may implicate Trump in Epstein’s crimes—if in any respect. Nevertheless, Trump’s personal officers sat him down earlier this yr and informed him that he appeared within the paperwork.
Democrats, in the meantime, mentioned that if Trump now needs Republicans to vote for the recordsdata to be launched, that Trump ought to simply launch the recordsdata himself.
Certainly, that could be obligatory, because it’s unclear if the GOP-controlled Senate will take up the Home invoice when it passes.
A few of Epstein’s victims even launched an advert on Sunday urging Congress to move the laws, speaking about their expertise being trafficked by Epstein.
“For five administrations, survivors of Jeffrey Epstein have been left in the dark, waiting for answers and accountability. After three decades, it’s finally time to bring the secrets out of the shadows,” World With out Exploitation, which launched the advert, wrote. “We are demanding the release of ALL the Epstein files. The time is now! Call your member of congress and tell them to VOTE YES on the Epstein Files Transparency Act. ”
