‘We Have Nothing to Hide’: Trump Tells Republicans to Vote to Release Epstein Files
“All I do care about is that Republicans get BACK ON POINT, which is the Economy, “Affordability” (where we are winning BIG!), our Victory on reducing Inflation from the highest level in History to practically nothing, bringing down prices for the American People….”
President Donald Trump told Republicans to vote on a measure to force the release of all Jeffrey Epstein files.
Trump wrote on Truth Social:
As I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the Fake News Media, House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent Victory on the Democrat “Shutdown.” The Department of Justice has already turned over tens of thousands of pages to the Public on “Epstein,” are looking at various Democrat operatives (Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc.) and their relationship to Epstein, and the House Oversight Committee can have whatever they are legally entitled to, I DON’T CARE! All I do care about is that Republicans get BACK ON POINT, which is the Economy, “Affordability” (where we are winning BIG!), our Victory on reducing Inflation from the highest level in History to practically nothing, bringing down prices for the American People, delivering Historic Tax Cuts, gaining Trillions of Dollars of Investment into America (A RECORD!), the rebuilding of our Military, securing our Border, deporting Criminal Illegal Aliens, ending Men in Women’s Sports, stopping Transgender for Everyone, and so much more! Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive and, if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it before our Landslide Election Victory. Some “members” of the Republican Party are being “used,” and we can’t let that happen. Let’s start talking about the Republican Party’s Record Setting Achievements, and not fall into the Epstein “TRAP,” which is actually a curse on the Democrats, not us. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Honestly, I do not know why he is shocked that people care so much. Trump and his campaign made a big deal about releasing the Epstein files.
Maybe they reviewed the documents and found nothing new.
However, Trump is correct when he said that if the files contained anything juicy about him, the Democrats would have released them earlier.
Then again…I wonder if no one has released the files because it would out them and/or close friends and partners.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has been the forefront of the issue. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Trump have tried to stop any votes on anything to force the DOJ to release the documents.
However, more and more House Republicans have been joining Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA).
I’m guessing Trump and Johnson saw the inevitable and gave in.
The House will likely vote on the legislation on Tuesday.
But the legislation has to go through the Senate before it even hits Trump’s desk. Who knows how that will go.
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It’s only been how many years of scrubbing and sanitizing? Is there anything left of the originals?
Sure there are those who will make that unfounded claim. Unfortunately by not following through on campaign rhetoric about full transparency re Epstein files immediately, then digging in to oppose the release and launching invective laden assaults to include backing primary challenges at those who urged the Admin to keep faith with their rhetoric and follow through ….all those poor decisions lend credibility to the ‘there’s something to hide/they sanitized the files/release is incomplete’ sorts of claims.
There are valid legal reasons to not be hasty.
Maybe, but you don’t get to simply declare it as factual you gotta explain how those legal reasons apply to the overnight decision by Trump to reverse his opposition to release and instead urge the passage in HoR to release of the Epstein files. IOW spell out exactly what changed yesterday to make it totes OK to release the files. If you can’t/won’t then I’m gonna reject your premise as unproven.
FWIW I don’t believe Trump has anything to fear from release, in fact I believe he’s of the opinion that the info might cause what he perceives as
unfair harm/reputation damage to some folks whose names are in these files. I also believe he got upset when his ‘trust me Bro’ change up about releasing it didn’t immediately stop calls for release across the center/right. He let his ego rule his stance.
It has been explained. The media does not put the explanations out there in their incessant hue and cry. They only want to smear Trump.
You seem to misunderstand my question so I’ll restate it.
IF ‘valid legal reasons not to be hasty’ (so far merely asserted as if this is gospel but still undefined) was THE impetus for Trump to vigorously oppose release of Epstein Files then were all those ‘reasons’ suddenly resolved on Friday? Were some previously resolved and Friday was last one?
OR Maybe what actually changed wasn’t the ‘valid legal reasons’ but rather a recognition by the Trump WH that the POLITICAL reasoning had changed now that the passage of the discharge petition in HoR would almost certainly pass regardless of the Trump WH opposition and Trump was getting in front of this vote to reframe the result away from an undisputed loss for his political positioning opposed to release?
Fair….I was cynical at first that the stall was just not to release them at all.
I’m hopeful again.
Of course not. And if there were stuff on Trump we would have seen it during the Biden years.
This is not complicated. The Democrats already know the republican names, and vice versa.
So either each will call out any omitted names, or both collude to omit their favorites.
They can’t very well omit Bill Clinton.
Ian Hacking “The Making and Molding of Child Abuse”
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/448583
recounts a surprising history. There was no child abuse before the 1960s, and no child sexual abuse before the 1970s.
They existed but not as a “public problem,” just as a personal moral failing, like drunk driving used to be before the late 1950s.
Child sexual abuse as a public problem turned out to be a ratings winner, and resulted in day care court cases that are remarkable to this day. Some kind of insanity was produced.
Some of that it bleeding into the Epstein case, it’s just a ratings winner.
I grew up well before the 1970s and we lived without child sexual abuse. You never heard of it. Also kids ran free all day and ranged for miles.
That difference turns out to be a media effect, most likely.
Dangerous dogs came in in the 1980s. Strays used to be common – you’d see dogs hit by cars pretty often on roadsides. Not today. A stray dog is an emergency. No dogs hit by cars. Just to give a more recent change that may be familiar to more people to reflect on.
Please be sure to show this post to your psychiatrist/psychologist at your next session. It’s painfully obvious your prescriptions need to be adjusted. Until then please stop posting nonsense.
Just because it wasn’t prosecuted, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
Consider though that the crime didn’t have the same effects. The modern view makes the effects on victims as severe as possible. Old time “indifference” makes the event not particularly important to the victim either.
A point made by a child abuse therapist that I could probably find if needed.
The essential thing is that the old victim was free to assume partial responsibility for what happened to her, at an age where she’s learning to take responsibilities for things, and hence finds her world in her control. A modern victim is absolutely denied the possibility of taking partial responsibility, which is stunting and permanent.
The modern plus is that society likes deploring the crime. See clicks on Epstein even today.
“I grew up well before the 1970s and we lived without child sexual abuse.”
Good for you.
John Wayne Gacy, Henry Lee Lucas, Karla Homolka, and Richard “Night Stalker” Ramirez were not so lucky.
You forgot the kids running free for miles at a time. Different culture and different effects on those living in it. You can see the costs of the modern obsession if you can think back that far.
The modern public obsession though gives huge media dopamine hits, so there’s that positive in the modern view.
“Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Trump have tried to stop any votes on anything to force the DOJ to release the documents.”
Force the DOJ? The DOJ is in the executive branch. Trump is the chief of that branch.
Eric ‘I’m Obama’s wingman’ Holder laid waste to the facade of an independent DOJ.
I’m unclear why this requires a vote from congress.
Epstein claimed that the motto in his family crest, “Sex before eight, or it’s too late” referred merely to a preference for daytime relations.
I hope the GOP will listen.
My opinion has not changed in years at this point.
I believe that it would be fantastic to see the real Epstein files.
I ALSO believe that FAR too many rich and powerful people have had FAR too long to screw with the files, either removing guilty names or adding innocent names.
Even if they release something they claim to be the Epstein files, I don’t believe it will be complete and accurate.
again..its the lefty hysteria ,,once again,, the emotional outbursts and distractions they need
the main female herself who committed clintoncide made it known that djt was nothing short of magnificent to her
I have no faith that the files will be accurate after being in the Biden DOJ’s hands. They could have added fake documents and names. They could have deliberately removed true documents as a trap for when they were released so they can claim Trump removed them. There is absolutely no reason to believe these will be at all accurate or complete.
But here’s what will probably happen when these get released. A whole bunch of Biden DOJ people start being “whistleblowers” and saying that there are missing documents/names that are omitted from whatever is released, including Trump. They may claim that democrat names were added by Trump. Some of them will even start pulling out “copies” of those documents that no one will ever be able to prove are true or not. And we will spend at least the next three years arguing about it.
I’m more interested in the Brian Epstein files. Did George Martin out him to take control of the Beatles?
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x100000000007>>>Trump is correct when he said that if the files contained anything juicy about him, the Democrats would have released them earlier.
so now anything “found” would be right along the same lines as when lefty “finds” more mail-in votes that were left out on the sidewalk by accident
Two things, one, if there was anything bad in the files about Trump, Biden would have exposed them and two, if there was anything bad about a Dem in them he would have erased them. This is going to be a big letdown for a lot of people when they come out.
All the news about the Trump Ball Room has dried up.
This will dry up, too.
I suspect there’s not any real damaging info on Trump but I also think there’s gonna be plenty of damaging info on a number prominent people including d/prog political figures.
Epstein recorded everything and everyone. I am interested in the video tapes that the FBI confiscated during their raids in NY, NM, and the Caribbean house. I bet the Wray FBI destroyed them long ago.
The upshot is, if the files are released on Trump’s watch, everything will be blamed on Trump. A Dem ID’d as a pedo? “False documentation inserted by Trump’s DOJ.” No evidence of Trump’s involvement? “Trump had all such references removed.”
Everyone here knows this is how it works. There’s literally no upside for Trump in the release of the files.
If there were any tidbits in the “Epstein Files” that would damage Trump the Dems would have leaked them long ago. There is no there there and no one outside of Dems desperately trying to divert attention away from their incompetence and the msm egging them on care about this. Oh, and that wacko Greene lady of Jewish Space Laser fame.
Of course, the remaining issue here for many of us was never Epstein. It’s Trump.
He went from “Elect me and I’ll release the files the swamp has been hiding from you,” to “its all a hoax and a waste of time being pushed by Democrats and stupid Republicans,” to “release the files, we have nothing to hide.”
With not a scrap of rational explanation of what turned him from Jekyll to Hyde back to Jekyll again. THAT is the issue.
Sure, I’d like to see the Epstein pedo perps get their due. But I’m way more bothered as to why Trump suddenly didn’t.
Yep. I suspect someone convinced him there’s too much potential for damage to prominent people as the basis for opposing release, then when he got pushback Trump let his ego drive his decision making and now on the Eve of the vote for the discharge petition to get the info released Trump flipped to avoid being on the losing side of that vote.
It’s kinda how he trumpets (pun intended) his endorsement record in Congressional HoR contests which include lots of very Red CD but is less successful in his endorsements for Statewide offices often avoiding making endorsement decisions until the final polling. Trump wants to be associated with wins and tends change his stance to avoid a loss. Not the worst habit to have.
Stop right there, that’s the way Democrats talk, as if Trump is the Republicans’ puppetmaster and they are subject to his orders.
He can’t tell Republicans to do anything. He can ask, he can recommend, but he can’t tell. They don’t work for him.
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