President Donald Trump is working overtime to distance himself from his former friend Jeffrey Epstein.

On Sunday, Trump declared that if a bill to release the remaining Epstein files comes across his desk, he will sign it. It was an unexpected sentiment coming from the president, who has spent the past several months fighting the release of the Epstein files, which he has branded a “Democrat hoax.”

“Let the Senate look at it,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Monday. “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.”

Trump also attempted to separate himself from Epstein, despite the pair being friends from the late 1980s t

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