Well?
Ole Donald wasn’t gonna stop ‘his’ party members anyways from voting to release the files…
Is he giving up?
Why?
President Trump on Sunday night called on House Republicans to vote to release files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, reversing his previous position.
Trump’s announcement came amid signs that a vote this week on a measure forced by a discharge petition might have won dozens of Republican votes despite the president’s opposition.
“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 president wrote in the Sunday night post on his Truth Social platform.
A discharge petition to force a vote on a measure to release the government files secured its 218th signature on Wednesdasy when Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) was sworn into Congress. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) had refused to swear in Grijalva for weeks amid the government shutdown.
Discharge petitions are a way for the minority to force a vote on legislation the majority in the House does not want to hold. In this case, a handful of House Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), who has been in a feud with Trump over the Epstein files and other issues, joined with Democrats on the discharge petition…
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If the measure is approved by the House, it would still need to be passed by the Senate and signed by Trump to force the release. Last week, those two steps still seemed in doubt, but Trump’s statement on Sunday suggests they could become reality….
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In recent months, the Trump administration has faced scrutiny from both sides of the aisle over its handling of information related to Epstein.
Pressure grew last week after the release by Democrats of more emails, including one written by Epstein that said Trump “knew about the girls.”…
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In the hours before Grijalva was sworn into the House last week, Trump and allies reached out to some Republicans who had signed in the discharge petition, in what appeared to be an effort to get them to back down.
The Hill’s sister network NewsNation had previously reported that Trump had called House Republicans in an attempt to have them remove their signatures from the petition, according to a Republican source……
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) predicted “100 or more” House Republicans could vote in favor of releasing files and documents related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein this week, The Hill reports.
Said Massie: “I think we could have a deluge of Republicans.”
Washington Post: Despite Trump’s ire, House gaining support on Epstein files vote.
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