{"id":269648,"date":"2025-11-18T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269648\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:30:09","slug":"trump-latest-full-epstein-files-set-to-be-released-as-deeply-ashamed-associate-quits-public-life-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269648\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump latest: Full Epstein files set to be released – as ‘deeply ashamed’ associate quits public life | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our US correspondents James Matthews<\/a> and\u00a0Martha Kelner<\/a>\u00a0discussed the upcoming House vote on the Epstein files on today’s episode of the Trump 100 podcast.<\/p>\n

It looks “pretty inevitable” now that the bill will pass the House, Kelner said.<\/p>\n

This is in part because Donald Trump “has done an almighty flip-flop”, as Kelner explained.<\/p>\n

Trump, as presidential candidate, wanted to publish all files on Jeffrey Epstein in full and campaigned on it, she said.<\/p>\n

But Trump, the president, took a different view and blocked the release of the files once he was in the White House.<\/p>\n

This infuriated the MAGA movement, his support base, Kelner said.<\/p>\n

Listen to the full episode here:<\/p>\n

Many of them had pushed for the files’ release as they suspected them to contain incriminating evidence of the involvement of centrist and leftist figures in Epstein’s crimes.<\/p>\n

“They were even less happy last week when his administration pressured Republicans not to back the petition for release,” Kelner added.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, however, Trump said he wanted Republicans to vote for the bill.<\/p>\n

Kelner wondered whether the U-turn was because “it’s become clear to him that he was facing defeat on this”.<\/p>\n

‘Most serious challenge’<\/p>\n

She called it his “most serious challenge he’s faced from his party since his inauguration”.<\/p>\n

She also noted that the president’s notably tired appearance during yesterday’s Oval Office meeting with Gianni Infantino may well be linked to that.<\/p>\n

“Perhaps this schism in his party, the crisis around the Epstein files, are taking a toll on him,” Kelner said.<\/p>\n

But, she added, due to the president’s pivot, the vote in the House could now be “almost unanimous”.<\/p>\n

Thomas Massie, one of the Republican initiators behind the bill, said on Sunday that more than 100 members of his party were willing to back the bill.<\/p>\n

Still, it remains uncertain when the Senate will hold a vote, Kelner added.<\/p>\n

Follow the link here <\/a>to listen to the full Trump 100 episode on your podcast app of choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our US correspondents James Matthews and\u00a0Martha Kelner\u00a0discussed the upcoming House vote on the Epstein files on today’s episode…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-269648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}