U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday (14 November) used a post on Truth Social to criticise what he described as “weak Republicans,” ahead of an expected vote in the U.S. House of Representatives next week on whether to compel the Justice Department to release all unclassified files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The renewed focus on the Epstein case followed the release on Wednesday (12 November) of emails by House Democrats, in which Epstein wrote that Trump “knew about the girls.” Trump, who socialised with Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s before a subsequent falling-out, has repeatedly denied any knowledge of the financier’s abuse and trafficking of underage girls.
In his Friday post, Trump claimed that “the Democrats are doing everything in their withering power to push the Epstein Hoax again,” before turning his attention to Republicans who may support the move to release the documents. “Some Weak Republicans have fallen into their clutches because they are soft and foolish,” he wrote.
The forthcoming vote places House Republicans in a difficult position, caught between loyalty to Trump and calls for transparency from some of Epstein’s alleged victims. The scandal has proved politically troublesome for Trump for months, partly because he has promoted conspiracy theories about Epstein among his supporters and pledged to make the Justice Department’s files public.
Many of Trump’s voters believe the government has concealed Epstein’s connections to influential individuals and obscured key details surrounding his 2019 death in a Manhattan jail, officially recorded as suicide.
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