President Donald Trump on Wednesday called demands that his administration release the J effrey Epstein files a distraction from his successes, as a group of victims of the notorious sex offender called for those documents to be publicly disclosed.

"This is a Democratic hoax that never ends," Trump told reporters at the White House when he was asked about the Epstein files.

Despite Trump's claim, his fellow Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, has been leading a renewed charge in Congress to force the release of documents about Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell .

Massie has filed a so-called discharge petition in the House of Representatives, which, if passed, would order the Department of Justice to release all documents related to Epstein.

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