WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump urged House Republicans to support releasing files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, marking a surprising reversal from his earlier opposition to the idea.

What they're saying:

"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," Trump wrote on social media shortly after landing at Joint Base Andrews following a weekend in Florida.

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The backstory:

Democrats and some Republicans have been pushing a measure that would force the Justice Department to make public more documents from the case.

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