The President of the United States, Donald Trump, changed his position and asked Republican congressmen to approve the disclosure of documents from pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, in a vote that is scheduled for Tuesday.
“House Republicans [dos Representantes] should vote in favor of releasing the Epstein files because We have nothing to hide, and it’s time to overcome this Democratic hoax perpetrated by lunatics on the radical left to divert attention from the great success of the Republican Party“, wrote Trump, on Sunday, on the social network he owns, Truth Social.
The publication comes hours after North American media reported that Republicans will discuss on Tuesday, in the House of Representatives – the lower house of the United States parliament, led by a Republican ally of Trump – the release of all documents related to Epstein, after emails were released last week in which Trump’s name emerged again.
The US President assured on Friday that he “knew nothing” about the actions of Jeffrey Epstein, who committed suicide in prison in 2019, before being tried for sexual exploitation of minors.
Trump announced that he would ask the Department of Justice and the United States federal police, the FBI, to investigate links between Epstein and several figures and institutions, including former Democratic President Bill Clinton (1993-2001).
The Republican indicated that, in addition to Clinton, former Democratic Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, investor, businessman and co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, the bank JP Morgan Chase and “many other people and institutions” should be the target of an investigation.
“Records show that these men, and many others, spent much of their lives with Epstein and on his ‘island.'”added the tycoon, in a message also published in Truth Social.
Trump also accused Democrats on Friday of creating a “political farce” and “fabricating” the case. “Jeffrey Epstein was a Democrat, it’s a Democrat problem, not a Republican problem”he wrote.
During the presidential election campaign, Trump even promised “major revelations” about the Epstein case.
But, since returning to power in January, the American leader has insisted that the judicial and media case over Epstein is “a political manipulation designed to weaken” the Republican Administration.
The scandal gained new momentum this week after the release of ’emails’ attributed to Epstein, in which the businessman claims that Trump “knew about the girls” who were abused and that he “spent several hours” with one of the victims.
The US President has repeatedly denied any involvement in or knowledge of the crimes committed by Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking of minors.
Epstein, an influential figure in New York high society and close to politicians and businessmen, was found dead in prison in 2019, before the trial began.
The death was officially classified as a suicide, but continues to fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein’s eventual elimination to silence compromising testimony.