Trump said he would sign legislation to force the Justice Department to release the files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein if it passes Congress.
“We have nothing to do with Epstein. The Democrats do — all of his friends were Democrats,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when he was asked whether he would sign the bill if it passes the House and the Senate.
The House is expected to vote tomorrow.
Trump said he wants the public to “recognize a great job that I’ve done on pricing, on affordability, because we brought prices way down, but they’re going way lower on energy, on ending eight wars and another one coming pretty soon.”
“You know, we’ve already given 50,000 pages,” Trump said of his administration’s releasing Epstein-related files. “It’s just a Russia, Russia, Russia hoax as it pertains to the Republicans. Now, I believe that many of the people that we, some of the people that we mentioned are being looked at very seriously for their relationship to Jeffrey Epstein, but they were with him all the time. I wasn’t. I wasn’t at all, and we’ll see what happens.”
Trump said he doesn’t want Epstein to “detract” from the Republican Party’s “success,” including that “Democrats are totally blamed for the shutdown.”
“Sure, I would,” Trump eventually said, responding to the question about signing the bill. “Let the Senate look at it. Let anybody look at it, but don’t talk about it too much, because, honestly, I don’t want to take it away from us. It’s really a Democrat problem. The Democrats were Epstein’s friends, all of them, and it’s a hoax.”