Trump reverses course, says Republicans should vote to release Epstein files
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President Donald Trump has called on his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Must’ve finished scrubbing his name from them.

Edit: Maybe it’s a “I’d release them if I could, but the investigations prevent me” situation.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
    33·
    2 days ago

    So what exactly is preventing them from releasing not just redacted but heavily edited “Epstein files” where they removed any hint of Trump and added a few additional democrat names for good measure? They’ve certainly had enough time to create something like that.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 hours ago

      The discharge petition itself contains the word “unclassified” which means all Bondi has to do is classify anything with Trump and friends names before the release.

      • bluemellophone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        1 day ago

        To play the devil’s advocate, it’s certainly possible Trump publicly supports the House voting to release the original documents because he either 1) has ironclad assurance that it’ll die in the Senate, or 2) will just pocket veto the bill. There was substantial political downside to them opposing their release, and many many ways for them to kill this whole thing in the future.

        Trump doesn’t want the files released, but their Legislative Affairs and Communications Director finally woke up to a strategy that wasn’t political suicide.