Trump reverses course, says Republicans should vote to release Epstein files
www.abc.net.au
President Donald Trump has called on his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Must’ve finished scrubbing his name from them.

Edit: Maybe it’s a “I’d release them if I could, but the investigations prevent me” situation.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
    6·
    5 hours ago

    My own theory on the flip-flop back to his original stance:

    1. The DOJ/FBI have finished sanitizing the entire document to clear Trump and Republican loyalists, so releasing it now will only help them.

    2. The worst of the damning information (about Trump knowing about the girls and not stopping it) has already been made public so there’s no point in hiding it anymore. Republicans have already spun the narrative as “not that bad” and Trump survived, so why not win some brownie points and release the official document in it’s entirety?

    I can’t see any other reason for why he suddenly wants them to go public again. Trump only ever does things that serve his own self interests, so him blocking it for so long was beneficial to him in some way, and now continuing to block it doesn’t benefit him.

    • Catma@lemmy.world
      8·
      4 hours ago

      Option 3 I think is most likely.

      DOJ just started new investigations into Clinton, JP Morgan, and others at Trumps behest. Once vote happens to release files DOJ says “Oops no can do with an ongoing investigation.” Repubs look like they care and nothong goes public.

      Its an easy win win for them