WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said House Republicans should vote to release the files in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a startling reversal after previously fighting the proposal as a growing number of those in his own party supported it.
“We have nothing to hide, and it’s 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,” Trump wrote on social media late Sunday after landing at Joint Base Andrews following a weekend in Florida.
Trump’s statement followed a fierce fight within the GOP over the files, including an increasingly nasty split with Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had long been one of his fiercest supporters.
It’s wild how long the FBI needed to clean the files. I guess they are done now?
Ok… You heard him! Release them!
He just got a text that they finished replacing references to his name with Clinton, no need to delay anymore
So he blew himself?
Donald! You can just tell the DOJ to release them. You campaigned on releasing them, so just do it. They don’t need to vote on it if you just do it.
Let’s all mentally prepare ourselves for Trump to claim he wishes he could release these documents but his gosh darn DOJ just won’t do it because they’re using them to investigate Bill Clinton or whoever and he certainly wouldn’t ever want to interfere with a federal investigation
Don’t give em ideas.
He just needed time for someone to sift through and “disappear” all the incriminating documents. Now the rest can be released.
I have been concerned for a long time that they may try to release doctored documents
They 100% are going to.
and they will get Maxwell and Mark Epstein to back them up.
They will focus entirely on Clinton, who frankly needs to go to jail as much as Trump. Give them the honeymoon suite.
He also ordered the doj to open a new investigation which allows his doj to bar any release of the files related to an “open case.” His followers have to be irredeemably brainwashed to accept this.
His followers have to be irredeemably brainwashed to accept this.
They are
which allows his doj to bar any release of the files related to an “open case.”
What is that based on? Law? Doesn’t seem like the DOJ’s policies should be able to override one of the three constitutionally prescribed authorities of our country…
Really it will be the GOP letting it happen.
No, the current bill proposed allows the DOJ to redact any information related to victims or an ongoing case.
By opening a huge investigation, it basically means they can redact anything they feel like because “ongoing investigation”.
After thousands of FBI agents redacted all mentions of him?
At this point, I refuse to believe that the original files will be released unedited.
Trump’s team has a had unrestricted access to the files for a very long time. The original files probably exists somewhere, they are too valuable for a career politician to not either do a quick ctrl+c ctrl+v or just doing a classic photographing the screen.
Now that he knows the vote is going to go against him, time for plan B. He can’t let it appear that Congress would actually defy him so he has to “call for” it to happen so they still appear to be obeying him.
I’d be surprised if his minions in charge of the DOJ haven’t already destroyed anything damaging to him as soon as they could get hold of it, but in any case we know they have a plan in place for DOJ to not release anything bad for him.
If it’s going to happen anyway, they might as well claim political credit for the thing they used to oppose, right?
It’s not a reversal it’s the next step in the coverup. Now that he knows it will be released with or without his approval he’s betting that if he says at the last moment he wants them released that he will look like the good guy.
But also, to be clear, nobody has ever said that Trump did anything wrong but the fact he is / was so against them being released means that he is protecting somebody. Himself? Clinton, Gates, Musk? Who knows but it doesn’t fucking matter.
Release the files, no matter who’s in them!
He’s protecting the trove of blackmail itself. It’s not about a specific who that’s in it— blackmail material loses its value once it’s released and that is decades and dozens of powerful people who will suddenly be useless. Epstein and Maxwell weren’t making their money from trafficking. They were making their money from collecting and selling all manner of secrets.
Hm? I feel like a lot of people said he did a lot of fucking things wrong.
Pretty sure it was assumed he might be in them, but it only became extremely obvious that something potentially damning was in them when he started fighting it so hard despite saying he’d release them before getting elected.
But if you mean in general, then yeah, for sure lol.
There is no absolute proof…yet. Until then we can best use the “If it walks like a duck” offensive.
This is called “getting ahead of the story.” The only problem is this story is a speeding freight train, and it’s going to turn everyone in its path into a pink mist.
We can only hope!
I can’t decide if Trump thinks this will make him look like less of a lame duck when the vote passes the house, or if Trump is trying to reverse psychology them out of it.
They will play the democrat card.
