The White House tried to blame Democrats for a lack of "transparency" on Jeffrey Epstein after President Donald Trump reversed course and encouraged Republicans to vote for a House petition calling for the Department of Justice to release files related to the notorious sex offender.

After it became clear that Republicans were going to vote for Rep. Thomas Massie's (R-KY) discharge petition, Trump announced on Sunday that he had changed his mind on the release of the Epstein files.

"House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because 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," the president wrote on Truth Social.

Trump had previously ca

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