President Trump backs vote to release the Epstein Files

President Trump threw in the towel on dissuading House Republicans from backing a measure to release files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying Sunday night that GOP lawmakers should instead embrace the vote.

“House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide,” Trump wrote late Sunday on his Truth Social platform. “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’s shift comes as a growing number of Republican lawmakers have joined Democrats to back legislation that would compel the US Justice Department to unseal all remaining Epstein-related records.

The Epstein Files Transparency Act appears poised to clear the House of Representatives, although its prospects in the Senate remain uncertain. Republican Representative Thomas Massie, a co-sponsor of the bill, told ABC News on Sunday that as many as 100 Republicans could vote in favor.

The White House has accused Democrats of releasing selective material related to the Epstein Files to “create a fake narrative” and damage the President. Trump on Friday demanded that Attorney General Pam Bondi and the FBI investigate Epstein’s links former US President Bill Clinton and ex-Harvard University President and one-time Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.

The pressure to release the entirety of the Epstein Files had become insurmountable, and President Trump had to succumb to it. Whether the entirety of the files are actually released still remains to be seen.