Sept. 5 (UPI) — President Donald Trump on Friday posted a lengthy message on social media, urging people to “end the Democrat Epstein Hoax” in response to continued calls to release information related to the sex trafficking case.
“The Department of Justice 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,” Trump said on Truth Social, addressing calls to release files related to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump used the same “hoax” language earlier in the week to refer to continued calls to release the so-called Epstein list, when a group of survivors of the convicted sex trafficker spoke out at a press conference on Capitol Hill.
Earlier this week, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released 33,295 pages of files related to Epstein’s sex trafficking of minors case provided by the Justice Department.
“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,” Trump wrote Friday.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been pushing for the government to release more files related to Epstein.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., is one of those leading the Republican push and has introduced a discharge petition that would force the release of all government files related to Epstein. The petition has yet to garner the required number of signatures.
Massie, who has sparred with Trump, posted a poll on X this week asking if it was “a hoax that Jeffrey Epstein was involved in underage sex trafficking, and there is unreleased evidence that would likely expose rich and politically connected perpetrators to indictments or convictions?'”
Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges of solicitation of prostitution and of solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18 in 2007 and was later arrested on new sex charges in 2019. The billionaire was found dead of a suspected suicide in the Manhattan Correctional Center cell later that year.