In a major reversal, President Donald Trump has signalled to House Republicans that they can vote for the release of the so-called “Epstein files,” as an upcoming vote that threatened to force GOP lawmakers to choose between their leader and their base seems all but certain to pass anyway.

After urging Republicans last week to prevent a House vote to release all of the Epstein files, Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday night that “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide.”

Still, Trump maintained that the focus on Jeffrey Epstein, the late well-connected financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide in federal prison in 2019 during an investigation into alleged sex trafficking, is a distraction ginned up by Trump’s riva

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