US President Donald Trump said Sunday he backed politicians’ efforts to release more files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, despite his previous opposition to the measure.
“House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
The 79-year-old Republican has accused Democrats of pushing an “Epstein hoax” after emails emerged in which the disgraced financier suggested Trump “knew about the girls”.
Some critics have accused Trump of trying to conceal details about his own alleged wrongdoing — something the president denies — by looking to block the vote, which has divided his typically loyal Republican Party.
The issue has driven Trump away from some of his closest allies within his Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose 2026 re-election bid Trump withdrew an endorsement for over the weekend.
He wants them to vote about the epstein files l
“Some ‘members’ of the Republican Party are being ‘used,’ and we can’t let that happen,” Trump said in his post, in reference to some Republican politicians breaking from his previous stance.
Trump has demanded Attorney-General Pam Bondi and the FBI investigate links between Epstein and ex-president Bill Clinton, a Democrat, along with former Harvard president Larry Summers, who served as Clinton’s treasury secretary.
Before he died in prison in 2019, Epstein had been required to register as a sex offender in Florida after pleading guilty in 2008 to two counts of solicitation of prostitution, including from a minor.
US Attorney-General Pam Bondi. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)
Trump claims Epstein ‘hoax’ is misleading
Trump said he made the same point to reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday, arguing that the controversy surrounding the documents is a “Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics” meant to distract from what he called the GOP’s recent successes, including the party’s handling of the government shutdown fight.
He warned that some GOP members are being manipulated by political opponents and cautioned his party not to fall into what he called the “Epstein trap.”
According to Trump, the Department of Justice has already released “tens of thousands of pages” connected to Epstein and is examining the past involvement of several high-profile Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, and Larry Summers. He added that the House Oversight Committee can access any materials it is “legally entitled to,” stressing that he is indifferent to further disclosures: “I DON’T CARE!”
The president framed the issue as a diversion that risks pulling Republicans away from core campaign themes.
He urged politicians to instead focus on the economy, inflation, tax cuts, military rebuilding, immigration enforcement, and cultural issues.
Trump also suggested that if Democrats possessed damaging information, they would have used it before his “landslide” election victory.
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