President Donald Trump stated on Monday that he would sign the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a bipartisan bill compelling the Department of Justice to release case files from its probes into the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, should it pass the House and Senate.
Speaking during an Oval Office event, Trump told reporters, “I do want to sign,” when asked about the legislation. The President then vehemently distanced himself from Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019, despite past associations.
“We have nothing to do with Epstein. The Democrats do. All of his friends were Democrats,” Trump asserted, specifically naming former President Bill Clinton and Larry Summers.
Trump compared the push for the Epstein files to the long-standing public clamor for records related to the assassinations of JFK, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., suggesting any release would “never be enough.”
The bill, co-sponsored by Republicans Thomas Massie and Democrats Ro Khanna, is scheduled for a vote in the House on Tuesday after a rare discharge petition forced House Speaker Mike Johnson to act.
The President and his advisors had initially tried to dissuade key House Republicans from supporting the petition, but Trump has since switched his position, urging the GOP to vote for the release while simultaneously labeling the matter a “Democrat Hoax” meant to deflect from Republican successes.
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