President Donald Trump doubled down on his call for House Republicans to vote to release the files related to the case involving convicted pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, Monday.
“What I don’t want Epstein to do is detract from the great success of the Republican Party,” Trump said during a briefing. “It’s really a Democrat problem. The Democrats were Epstein’s friends, all of them.”
It’s a flip for Trump’s recent rhetoric where he opposed the release of the files, but he said he is tired of the situation overshadowing what he’s accomplished.
“All I want is for people to recognize the great job that I’ve done on pricing, on energy, on ending eight wars and another one coming pretty soon. We’ve done a great job, and I hate to see that deflect from the great job we’ve done, so I’m all for it.”
The White House said in a release Monday that the Democrats aren’t talking about former President Bill Clinton traveling on Epstein’s plane 26 times or the time the Democrats refused to return $32,000 in donations form Epstein.
“We have nothing to do with Epstein. The Democrats do. All of his friends were Democrats. You look at this Reed Hoffman (Democrat donor), you look at Larry Summers (Clinton Treasury Secretary), Bill Clinton, they went to his island all the time, and many others, all Democrats.”
Trump implied the men he mentioned are the ones who are being looked at “very seriously” for their connections to Epstein.
“They were with him all the time. I wasn’t.”
Trump said his administration has already released 50,000 pages from the Epstein files.
“No matter what we give it’s never enough,” Trump said.
Trump said he would sign the bill to release the files when it comes to his desk.
“We’ll give them everything… let the Senate look at it. Let anybody look at it.”
Sunday night he called for House Republicans to back a vote compelling the Justice Department to release all files connected to the convicted child sex offender.
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This is after Democrats released emails from Epstein that said Trump “knew about the girls” and “spent hours” at Epstein’s home with one of the sexual offender’s victims. The White House said that the contents confirmed that Trump did not take part in Epstein’s sex crimes.
According to CBS, House GOP leaders are expected to hold a vote Tuesday for the full release of the Justice Department’s files on Epstein.
The bill is called the Epstein Files Transparency Act. It was introduced in July of this year. In addition to the release of all files related to the investigation and prosecution of Epstein, the bill calls for the release of materials that relate to Ghislaine Maxwell, flight logs and travel records, and individuals named or referenced (including government officials) in connection with the Epstein investigation.
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