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Trump urges release of Epstein files

By AAP Newswire

Nov 17, 2025

'Nothing to hide' in Epstein files: US House speaker — Donald Trump now says he wants Congress to vote to release the Epstein files. -AP

Donald Trump has changed tack, saying House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files to move on from the "Democrat Hoax.'

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"House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

"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'."

"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," Trump wrote on social media shortly after landing at Joint Base Andrews following a weekend in Florida.

Democrats and some Republicans have been pushing a measure that would force the Justice Department to make public more documents from the case on the sex trafficking investigation into pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The president's shift is an implicit acknowledgement that supporters of the measure have enough votes to pass the House, although it has an unclear future in the Senate.

with AP