WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said House Republicans should vote to release the files in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a startling reversal after previously fighting the proposal as a growing number of those in his own party supported it.

“We have nothing to hide, and 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,” Trump wrote on social media late Sunday after landing at Joint Base Andrews following a weekend in Florida.

Trump’s statement followed a fierce fight within the GOP over the files, including an increasingly nasty split with Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had long been one of his fiercest supporters.

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    22 days ago

    It’s not a reversal it’s the next step in the coverup. Now that he knows it will be released with or without his approval he’s betting that if he says at the last moment he wants them released that he will look like the good guy.

    But also, to be clear, nobody has ever said that Trump did anything wrong but the fact he is / was so against them being released means that he is protecting somebody. Himself? Clinton, Gates, Musk? Who knows but it doesn’t fucking matter.

    Release the files, no matter who’s in them!

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      21 days ago

      There is no absolute proof…yet. Until then we can best use the “If it walks like a duck” offensive.