{"id":289560,"date":"2025-11-17T03:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T03:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289560\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T03:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T03:24:08","slug":"donald-trump-calls-on-republicans-to-vote-to-release-epstein-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289560\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump calls on Republicans to vote to release Epstein files"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump has called on his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

“House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide,” Mr Trump said in a post on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

Members of the US Congress will this week vote on whether to publish unclassified documents linked to a sex trafficking probe into late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

It is a startling reversal, with Mr Trump previously fighting the proposal.<\/p>\n

The US president, a one-time friend of Epstein, has been criticised by Democrats and some fellow Republicans over his handling of the files.<\/p>\n

What we know about Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein<\/a><\/p>\n

Years-old emails from Jeffrey Epstein mentioning Donald Trump have been released, raising new questions about the extent of their relationship. Here’s what we know about the ties between them.<\/p>\n

The president’s shift is an implicit acknowledgement that supporters of the measure have enough votes to pass the House of Representatives, although it has an unclear future in the Senate.<\/p>\n

Republican member of Congress Thomas Massie has told American broadcaster ABC it is a no-brainer.<\/p>\n

“In 2030, he’s not going to be the president, and you will have voted to protect paedophiles if you don’t vote to release these files, and the president can’t protect you then,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The record of this vote will last longer than Donald Trump’s presidency.”<\/p>\n

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