President Trump stated Friday that the Justice Division had “done its job” and referred to as for an finish to the push from bipartisan lawmakers for extra disclosures within the case of the late financier and convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In a prolonged put up on Fact Social, Trump blamed Democrats for bringing the Epstein case “back to life,” although Republicans within the Home have been on the forefront of the push for extra transparency.
“The confused and badly failing Democrat Party did nothing about Jeffrey Epstein while he was alive except befriend him, socialize with him, travel to his Island, and take his money!” Trump posted. “They knew every thing there was to learn about Epstein, however now, years after his loss of life, they, out of nowhere, are seeming to indicate such love and heartfelt concern for his victims. Does anyone actually imagine that?
“The now dying (after the DOJ gave thousands of pages of documents in full compliance with a very comprehensive and exacting Subpoena from Congress!) Epstein case was only brought back to life by the Radical Left Democrats because they are doing so poorly, with the lowest poll numbers in the history of the Party (16%), while the Republicans are doing so well, among the highest approval numbers the Party has ever had!” Trump added.
The president asserted that the Justice Division “has done its job, they have given everything requested of them. It’s time to end the Democrat Epstein Hoax, and give the Republicans credit for the great, even legendary, job that they are doing.”
Republicans and Democrats within the Home have for weeks pressed for extra disclosures across the Epstein case. Lawmakers this week hosted press conferences with victims of Epstein to name for extra transparency. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has prompt Trump ought to meet with the victims on the White Home.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a frequent Trump foil within the Home, has sponsored a discharge petition aiming to drive the Trump administration to launch all the federal government information on Epstein. That petition seems poised to obtain the required help within the coming weeks.
Home GOP leaders, together with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), have as an alternative referred to as on lawmakers to help the efforts of the Oversight and Authorities Reform Committee, which is in search of extra disclosures on the Epstein case from the Justice Division (DOJ), the Epstein property, and former federal regulation enforcement officers who labored on the case.
The Home Oversight Committee on Tuesday made public a batch of information it stated it obtained from the DOJ in response to its subpoena for paperwork associated to Epstein. However critics have argued lots of the paperwork the Justice Division launched had been already public.
Trump has for months complained concerning the consideration given to the Epstein case, even criticizing a lot of his personal supporters who’ve clamored for extra data after the FBI and Justice Division introduced Epstein didn’t have a so-called “client list” and that he died by suicide in jail in 2019.
Epstein, accused in a number of instances of intercourse trafficking younger women, ran in high-powered circles with figures that included Trump, former President Clinton, Britain’s Prince Andrew and quite a lot of different celebrities and ultra-wealthy folks. Epstein’s affiliate, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been convicted of intercourse trafficking, and in July spoke with a prime Justice Division official.
