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After months of histrionics, self-aggrandizement, and apoplexy from Democrats and Republicans obsessed with the supposed links between disgraced and deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the sitting president of the United States, Donald Trump has called Congress’s bluff. In an overnight about-face, Trump announced that House Republicans should join the Democratic minority to release the document dump referred to as the “Epstein files” because, Trump posted on Truth Social over the weekend, “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.”
