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Dulcinea

(9,457 posts) Mon Nov 17, 2025, 04:33 AM 20 hrs ago

In a shift, Trump says House Republicans should vote to release Epstein files

(NPR) President Trump now says that House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files "because we have nothing to hide."

In a Truth Social post Sunday evening, he again called the issue a "Democrat Hoax" intended to "deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party."

Trump noted in the lengthy post that the Justice Department now has an additional investigation focused on Democrats who knew the convicted sex offender, at his request.

Trump has faced pressure from his own party to follow through on a campaign promise to release investigative files related to Epstein, creating rare fissures in the GOP. Most notably, he has withdrawn his endorsement for Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has been a vocal proponent of the vote.

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/16/nx-s1-5610552/trump-house-republicans-epstein-files

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In a shift, Trump says House Republicans should vote to release Epstein files (Original Post) Dulcinea 20 hrs ago OP

Does this mean jaymac 19 hrs ago #1

Probably means they have the votes to block the release PuraVidaDreamin 18 hrs ago #2

One operative said they'd redact all Republican/Trump names and leave Democrats' names.. CousinIT 18 hrs ago #3

He thinks the DOJ fake investigation will keep the files sealed even if sinkingfeeling 18 hrs ago #4

...yet he still is not releasing thems voluntarily SSJVegeta 17 hrs ago #5

So much success he's hiding the Labor statistics wolfie001 17 hrs ago #6

Why the vote? Why doesn't he just call up AG Bondi and tell her to release files ? surfered 17 hrs ago #7

Just how much of this shit are we supposed to put up with? (nt) Paladin 17 hrs ago #8

jaymac

(123 posts)

1. Does this mean

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 06:09 AM

19 hrs ago

They have destroyed much of Epstein's records? we got some e-mails but what about the rest?

PuraVidaDreamin

(4,402 posts)

2. Probably means they have the votes to block the release

Reply to jaymac (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 06:19 AM

18 hrs ago

Or the destruction is complete.

CousinIT

(12,039 posts)

3. One operative said they'd redact all Republican/Trump names and leave Democrats' names..

Reply to PuraVidaDreamin (Reply #2)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 06:32 AM

18 hrs ago

....in the documents.

Either Pam Bondi and her monkeys destroyed the files, or they finished redacting them of all Republican names and Trump and left all Democratic names in them.

One or the other or maybe a little of both.