President of the United States Donald Trump on Sunday called on Republican congressmen to vote to release all documents from pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The vote on this issue is scheduled for Tuesday, despite the president's previous opposition. 'Republicans in the House of Representatives should vote to release Epstein's documents because we have nothing to hide. It's time to move forward and stop falling into the trap of this Democratic deception perpetrated by radical leftists to distract from the great success of the Republican Party,' Trump wrote on Truth Social. His post came hours after media reports that Republicans will vote on Tuesday in the House of Representatives to force the release of all documents related to Epstein, a financier who committed suicide in 2019 after emails mentioning Trump were revealed last week. Republican Kentucky lawmaker Thomas Massie, the promoter of the initiative, had told ABC in an interview that he believed he had enough support among his fellow party members—about 100—to overcome the president's veto, which would require two-thirds of the seats with the addition of Democrats. Trump, who had been friends with the financier and then during his campaign promised to release all files on his crimes, including the prostitution of minors, asserted that 'the Department of Justice has already delivered tens of thousands of pages to the public on Epstein.' 'They are analyzing several Democratic operators (Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc.). Let's start talking about the record achievements of the Republican Party and not fall into the 'TRAP' of Epstein,' he concluded. Regarding his relationship with Epstein and the House Oversight Committee may have whatever they are legally entitled to,' the statement noted. The vote will come as pressure on the Epstein case intensifies, as Congress published last week some 20,000 files from the case, which include emails from the financier that mention Trump and suggest that the current president knew of his crimes and had spent 'hours' with one of the victims. Trump denied criminal ties with Epstein, who committed suicide in 2019 in a New York jail, by claiming he 'invented memos' about him. In this context, he now stated that 'no one cared about Epstein when he was alive, and if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it after the 'overwhelming victory' in the 2024 election.' 'Some members of the Republican Party are being 'used,' and we cannot allow it,' he added.
