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From
'Hoax'
to House
Vote:
Trump
Reverses
Course,
Calls
for Full
Release
of
Epstein
Files
Derick
Adams -
Crime/Law
Tell Us
USA News
Network
WASHINGTON
-
President
Donald
Trump
late
Sunday
announced
a stark
reversal
of his
prior
resistance,
urging
House
Republicans
to vote
in favor
of
legislation
that
would
compel
the
Justice
Department
to
release
all
unclassified
files
related
to the
investigation
of
convicted
sex
offender
Jeffrey
Epstein.
The
President,
who had
previously
pressured
allies
against
the
measure,
signaled
his
change
in
position
on his
Truth
Social
platform,
stating:
"House
Republicans
should
vote to
release
the
Epstein
files,
because
we have
nothing
to
hide."
The
sudden
pivot
comes as
the
House of
Representatives
is
expected
to vote
this
week on
the
bipartisan
Epstein
Files
Transparency
Act. The
legislation,
championed
by Reps.
Thomas
Massie
(R-KY)
and Ro
Khanna
(D-CA),
gained
unstoppable
momentum
last
week
when a
discharge
petition
secured
enough
signatures
to force
a floor
vote,
circumventing
House
leadership's
initial
efforts
to block
it. The
bill
would
mandate
the
public
disclosure
of a
vast
array of
documents,
records,
and
communications
held by
the
Justice
Department
concerning
Epstein’s
investigation,
death,
and
associates.
For
weeks,
the
President
and key
administration
officials
had
dismissed
the push
for
release
as a
"hoax"
and a
partisan
distraction
designed
by
Democrats
to smear
Republicans.
This
previous
opposition
led to
significant
internal
friction
within
the
party,
including
a very
public
rupture
with
Representative
Marjorie
Taylor
Greene
(R-GA),
one of
the
bill's
most
vocal
proponents.
Greene
and
other
figures
within
the
President's
base had
argued
that the
administration
was
attempting
to
conceal
details
that
would
implicate
other
powerful
elites
in
Epstein’s
orbit.
In his
late-night
statement,
President
Trump
maintained
that the
entire
controversy
was a
"Democrat
Hoax"
but
pivoted
to the
need for
the
Republican
Party to
"get
BACK ON
POINT,"
specifically
citing
the
economy.
The
reversal
is
widely
viewed
by
political
observers
as an
acknowledgment
that the
bill had
sufficient
bipartisan
support
to pass
the
House
regardless
of the
White
House’s
opposition,
making a
tactical
shift
the only
way to
retain
control
of the
narrative.
Though
the
House
vote is
now all
but
certain,
the
bill’s
path
through
the
Senate
and
whether
it would
face a
potential
veto
remains
unclear.
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