{"id":140200,"date":"2025-11-18T17:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/140200\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:43:09","slug":"epstein-files-latest-survivors-demand-documents-release-ahead-of-vote-in-us-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/140200\/","title":{"rendered":"Epstein files latest: survivors demand documents release ahead of vote in US House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/core\/website\/assets\/static\/news\/incident-types\/light-mode\/bbc-verify.bac8ff232a.svg\" alt=\"BBC Verify\" draggable=\"false\" class=\"ssrcss-to2z4d-ContributorImageComponent e2hr5uu0\"\/>How has Trump\u2019s position changed on releasing the Epstein files?published at 17:20 GMT<\/p>\n<p>17:20 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President Donald Trump sits at his desk in the Oval Office looking upwards with hands clasped while wearing a dark blue suite, light blue tie and white shirt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/b914098c-7c2b-48d6-a40c-a83ad891e030.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By Jake Horton<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked whether he would sign a bill supporting the release of the Epstein files yesterday, Donald Trump said he was \u201call for it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This followed a Truth Social post on Sunday from the US President which said: \u201cHouse Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This represents a change of course for Trump who since entering office has resisted the files being released, repeatedly calling them a \u201choax\u201d by the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump said he would release the Epstein files while campaigning to be president last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked on Fox News in June 2024 whether he would declassify the files, he said: \u201cYeah I would, I guess I would, I think that less so, because you know you don\u2019t know, you don\u2019t want to effect people\u2019s lives if it\u2019s phony stuff in there, because it\u2019s a lot of phony stuff with that world, but I think I would.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And in September last year when questioned on a podcast about releasing a supposed client list of people who visited Epstein\u2019s island, Trump said: \u201cI would be inclined to do the Epstein, I would have no problem with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How has Trump\u2019s position changed on releasing the Epstein files?published at 17:20 GMT 17:20 GMT Image source, Reuters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-140200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}