Nov. 17 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump unexpectedly dropped his opposition to the release of the Epstein files, saying Republicans should now support a motion to make the documents public in an upcoming vote in the House on Tuesday.
House Republicans should vote for the bill which would require the government to publish all documents it holds on Epstein and the criminal investigations into him that "because we have nothing to hide," Trump said Sunday.
"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,'" Trump said.
"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!"
CBS News said it had information that Republican leaders planned to schedule a full vote on the legislation, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, on Tuesday.
