Nov 17, 2025
Trump Pushes Republicans to Release Epstein Files in Sudden Flip-Flop Amid Infighting
Trump Pushes Republicans to Release Epstein Files in Sudden Flip-Flop Amid Infighting
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Trump now says the GOP should
release everything they know
about the Epstein files after feuding
with them not to, and at once claiming
there are no files for Max.
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Trump is basically saying no, no, no, no.
The Republicans are the ones
who didn't want to release it.
I was cool with it from the from the jump.
Oh yeah.
Donald Trump said House Republicans
should vote to release the files
in the Jeffrey Epstein case,
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a startling reversal
from his previously held notion
that people in his party didn't even care
about Jeffrey Epstein anymore.
He basically said, Jeffrey, who we
still talking about, Jeffrey Epstein?
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One thing to note is that Donald Trump,
as president of the United
States has the power to release the files
without an act of Congress.
Notably, Trump can simply order
his Department of Justice, which is part
of the executive branch that he controls,
to release the Epstein files
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without congressional authorization.
However, he has so far refused to do so.
Earlier this year, Attorney General Pam
Bondi reportedly informed the president
that his name appears
and files a whole bunch of times.
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There's more.
So Trump wrote on social media.
And this was late Sunday
after landing at Joint Base Andrews
following a weekend in Florida.
Quote.
We have nothing to hide, and it's time
to move on from this Democrat hoax
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perpetrated by radical Left lunatics
in order to deflect from the great success
of the Republican Party.
I don't care in all caps.
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All I do care about is the Republicans
getting back on point.
There was a lot more,
but I only have an hour and a half.
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So Trump, says release it.
And when it comes out,
just know it's a Democratic hoax, okay?
It's not real.
It's perpetrated by the radical left.
So if you see his name mentioned a bunch
of times in in appropriate situations,
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context and scenarios, just know he
has told you it's a Democratic hoax
and only the radical left believe in it.
And I know you're not going
to fall for it.
I know you're not because I've interviewed
so many former Trump supporters
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on this program who said they believe
in Trump, even though none of us did.
Some people did.
Now Trump is saying
that you are part of the radical left.
If you believe in yourself,
if you believe that you are right
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in demanding the release of these files,
which I concur with you.
If you believe you are right,
I believe you are right today.
If you believe in yourself,
no, you are right.
This man is no champion for you.
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Never has been. He never will be.
There's more. Put up.
Trump's statement followed a fierce fight
within the GOP over the files,
including an increasingly Nasty split
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with Georgia Representative
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had long been
one of his fiercest supporters.
Trump publicly called it quits with Greene
last week and said he would endorse
a challenger against her in 2026.
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Quote, if the right person
runs Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Keep that picture up, Jake.
May have had a little bit
to do with this, by the way.
He brought her on,
and she hasn't been the same ever since.
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Trump would outright call her a traitor,
by posting Marjorie traitor Greene.
She might as well come on over.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a disgrace
to our great Republican Party.
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Hold on. Just stop for a second.
Trump. You're a Republican again.
What's going on with the branding?
Your son said
there's no more Republican Party.
It's only MAGA now.
What happened to MAGA, man?
Now you. You're just a regular Republican.
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That's that's the new brand.
The new brand
is that he's a real Republican.
Okay.
Here's how Greene responded to that post.
The most hurtful thing he said,
which is absolutely untrue,
is he called me a traitor.
And that is that is so extremely wrong.
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And those are the types of words,
used that can radicalize people against me
and put my life in danger.
Unfortunately, it has all come down to
the Epstein files, and that is shocking.
And, you know, I stand with these women,
I stand with victims.
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I stand with children who are in
terrible sex abuse situations, and I stand
with survivors of of trafficking and those
that are trapped in, in sex trafficking.
And I will not apologize for that.
I believe the country deserves
transparency in these files.
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And I don't believe that
that rich, powerful people
should be protected if they have
if they have done anything wrong.
And and so I'm standing with the women
and I will continue to do my small part
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to get the files released.
Yeah. Why?
Marjorie Taylor Greene,
may be a conspiracy theorist.
Fraternized with known bigots and racists
has said some of the most ridiculous
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things I've ever heard an elected leader
in my life say out loud.
She's right on this one.
She is correct.
It comes down to the Epstein files.
That's it.
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The smoke and mirrors
are about the Epstein files.
If the right person runs well,
he's saying if a person who doesn't
give a damn about the Epstein file,
if they run, he will support them.
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I would bet that if a Democrat
would run against Marjorie Taylor Greene
and convince Trump they don't care
about the Epstein files,
he will endorse that Democrat.
Last week, talk about the emails.
Last week members.
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Well, let me do this first.
Trump did respond.
He doubles down.
Here's Trump's response is typical.
Here it is.
Her life is in danger. Who's that?
- Marjorie Taylor Greene.
- He says Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I don't think her life is in danger.
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I don't think, frankly,
I don't think anybody cares about her.
Okay. What about you?
So Donald Trump talks,
you know, like a seven year old.
You mean Marjorie Taylor Greene?
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This has been his way since day one.
He hasn't changed.
He's become more childlike
in his delivery, his name calling.
And there's a part of the inner child.
And a whole lot of folk
that celebrated this thought.
It was funny. I sure did.
When he was giving
those 18 Republicans on stage when he ran
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for the Republican primary the first time,
a run for their money, saying the most
silliest and, derogatory things you
can say about a person's hand size, etc.
But at some point it became real life
when, well,
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he started polling at number one.
The guy who cracks the jokes,
the guy who's the most immature,
may make you laugh at a bar,
but it's not necessarily the guy you want
to be your commander in chief.
Okay.
So last week, members of the House
Oversight Committee
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released thousands of emails
to and from Epstein, which were obtained
with Epstein's estate via a subpoena.
This was from the estate
by way of subpoena.
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They are not to be confused, however,
with the aforementioned Epstein files
held by the DOJ.
Currently.
In one 2011 email
to the author Michael Wolff.
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Epstein alleged that Trump, quote, knew
about the girls, knew about the girls.
Epstein's email did not elaborate,
but given his well,
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sensation for underage girls.
The remark has raised serious questions
about Trump's acknowledged
Trump's knowledge or acknowledgment
of his once friend's activities.
Elsewhere, Epstein claimed he gave
Trump his ex-girlfriend, gave Trump his
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ex-girlfriend, gave as in objectified.
That is an object I'm able to give another
human being to another human being.
It was Trump who told us on national news
during a press conference
as he's president of the United States.
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The reason he fell out with Epstein
really had nothing to do with his
other activities that he was accused of.
It was because he stole Epstein, stole the
help from his establishments, and he
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said, a good guy just doesn't do that.
There's more.
A newly unearthed email at 2019
shows that Jeffrey Epstein was aware
that President Donald Trump may have been
misrepresenting the value of his assets,
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an allegation that would get president hit
with a $454 million fraud judgment
in 2024.
Quote, Trump was a front man for money
laundering, according to Epstein.
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This, wrote Gollop, the general manager
of the consultancy firm FRD,
in a social media post on Sunday.
This person shared an email
unearthed in the latest release
of a trove of Epstein messages last week.
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People are going through them.
Quote,
Donald doesn't really own very much.
He rents out his name,
he puts it on buildings, projects, etc.
For a royalty or piece of the upside.
He then claims the asset is
and then quote, wrote Epstein in an email
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to himself dated January 15th, 2019,
just months before his eventual death
in prison, just months before his
eventual death in prison, just months
before his eventual death in prison.
Quote.
He represents his income
as the gross receipts of his club
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means nothing at all zero.
No income as we know it.
He lists his assets in their value, but
not the corresponding loans against it.
So no net number, hence meaningless.
Hence fraud is what that means.
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He dies two months later. Or unalive.
According to the report of February 2017,
in an email to former Treasury Secretary
Larry Summers, Epstein wrote of Trump,
quote, I have met some very bad people.
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Not as bad as Trump.
Not one decent cell in his body.
So, yes. Dangerous Dress in July.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch, who
was previously Trump's personal lawyer,
interviewed Epstein associate Maxwell,
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right hand woman of Epstein, who had 2021,
was convicted and sentenced to 20 years
in prison for child sex trafficking.
One of the most horrendous things
you could ever imagine a human being
would dedicate their life to doing.
Maxwell told Blanch
that she had never witnessed Trump
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engaging in illegal activity.
After the interview, the Department of
Justice transferred Maxwell, a convicted
child trafficker, to a low security
facility where she receives customized
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meals and is allowed to play with dogs.
The Department of Justice officials,
who have been directors of that agency,
went on record and said they have never
in their lives given a deal like that
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to a convicted child trafficker.
Here's the irony.
Typically, if they would give that deal,
it would be in lieu of information
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for a conviction or information in lieu
of a criminal enterprise coming down.
She has already been convicted.
There was no leverage that she had, other
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than perhaps the leverage of keeping her
mouth, mouth closed about Donald Trump.
There's more.
Emails involving Bill Clinton.
Let's talk about it.
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President Donald Trump has also implied
that Clinton went to the island
in the November 14th Truth Social post,
saying Larry Summers,
Reid Hoffman, JP Morgan Chase and Clinton
quote, spent large portions of their life
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with Epstein on his island.
Now, before I continue,
I brought this up when he made the post
and I said, you know how Trump knows?
Perhaps it's because Trump was there.
Trump is in the circle.
Okay, so he makes this post.
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The late Epstein accuser, Virginia Giuffre
says, has said she saw Clinton there
but never but never saw him doing anything
illegal, Epstein said in an email.
Part of thousands of documents released
by the committee on November 12th that
Bill Clinton never went to the island.
Clinton was never, ever there.
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Never.
Epstein wrote this in emails
that he did not consider to be, well,
public, nor would they become public.
I'm speaking of Clinton rumors.
So after an email, in the Jeffrey Epstein
files went viral for his reference
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to President Donald Trump blowing Bubba.
That's a quote, by the way.
Jeffrey's brother is offering
clarification about the message.
The documents include an email
from Mark Epstein that referenced photos
of Trump 79. Quote blowing Bubba.
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Bubba is a nickname of Bill Clinton.
However, Mark told The Advocate in a story
published on Sunday, November 16th, that
the individual isn't the former president.
Quote, for the avoidance of doubt, the
reference to Bubba in the correspondence
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is not in any way a reference
to former president Bill Clinton.
Mark said in a statement to the outlet.
Allie Clark, a spokesperson for Mark,
told The Advocate that, quote,
Bubba is a, quote, private individual
who is not a public figure.
Mark also explained that the email
exchange was being misread.
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Quote, they were simply part of a humorous
private exchange between two brothers
that were never meant for public release
or to be interpreted as serious remarks,
he told The Advocate when asked
for additional context about the message.
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Martin declined to give any more details.
Okay. Alright, so Bubba is not Clinton.
That doesn't explain the message.
All right.
There's a lot here, dear brother.
Thoughts?
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Wow. There's so much to break down.
I don't know where to begin.
And I think that the more we spend
on more time spent on Bill Clinton,
the more we are doing exactly
what Donald Trump wants us to do.
So let's talk about Donald Trump,
and we'll talk about I mean, I'm going
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to say one thing, but I mean slightly.
I don't even know if it's controversial.
He's the president.
I think it's a good political move,
what the president did by saying,
let's release everything.
There was an inevitability
that these were going to get released.
And now what he's doing is he's
freeing every Republican in Congress
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to vote for their release so that there
is no division within that party.
So in a sense, it's a victory
for the House, because what they're doing
is they're saying,
you know, we follow you all the time.
Now you're following us.
And now, the Trump, rather than leading
MAGA, is following MAGA in this way.
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It's interesting.
And all the time I spent with Trump voters
in the last election, many of them were
saying that the bridge too far for them
would be if Epstein's stuff was true,
if there was an association with Trump,
with Epstein, it was an Achilles heel
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that I hadn't even been able to predict.
I couldn't believe it.
And I don't I didn't know then
that it was really true,
but it was an easy thing to say.
They doubted that Trump was involved
with Epstein, but they said if he were
involved, that would make them reconsider
their support for Trump, which was
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a pretty astonishing when I heard it.
The fact that this is happening now
speaks to me more about
kind of the lame duck president
that Donald Trump has becoming a little
bit early, earlier than we expected.
So now what we're seeing is
this is a vulnerable man.
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He's vulnerable on this issue.
Clearly, it doesn't matter, really.
It matters in terms of human interest.
If Larry Summers or Bill Clinton
or Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor,
were with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Only one of those people is the president
of the United States right now.
Only one of those people has been covering
this up with his Justice Department.
So that's the most important part here.
And now you're seeing people
like Marjorie Taylor Greene
and other Republicans feel a little freer
about criticizing the president.
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There are a lot of ambitious people,
535 35 ambitious people on Capitol Hill.
Some of them want to be President Doctor
Ritchie, and some of them want to be
the Republican nominee
in order to be the Republican nominee.
You're going to have to separate yourself
from MAGA, from the president.
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You're going to have
to find those flaws and focus on them.
And I think that's the beginning
of what you're seeing here right now.
So that inevitability, to me is
the biggest part of this right now.
And it's, you know, I think prudent
because it makes it go away.
In a sense.
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The fighting, he doesn't want infighting
within the Republican Party.
They don't want to fight
amongst themselves.
They want to show unity.
He's allowing them to do that.
What comes out of this, though, is not
going to be pretty for the president.
It's not going to be pretty
for his Justice Department.
I think Kash Patel is going to be
the first person to go when it comes
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to what happens with the Epstein files.
Wow.
That would be amazing.
And I've heard others, in Congress say
that, Kash Patel will be the first to go.
All right.
We'll bring you updates as they come.
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