President Donald Trump is seen in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"Let the Senate look at it. Let anybody look at it. But don't talk about it too much, because honestly… it's really a Democrat problem," Trump also said. "The Democrats were Epstein's friends, all of them. And it's a hoax. The whole thing is a hoax, and I don't want to take it away from really the greatness of what the Republican Party has accomplished over the last period of time."
GOP lawmakers who spoke with Fox News Digital Monday evening said they would vote for the bill and were optimistic their colleagues would as well — though many of them said they still had concerns about how it was written.
TRUMP CALLS ON HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO VOTE TO RELEASE EPSTEIN FILES: ‘WE HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE'
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., walks from the chamber to speak with reporters after the final vote to bring the longest government shutdown in history to an end, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
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"Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive and, if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it before our Landslide Election Victory," Trump said. "Some ‘members’ of the Republican Party are being ‘used,’ and we can’t let that happen. Let’s start talking about the Republican Party’s Record Setting Achievements, and not fall into the Epstein ‘TRAP,’ which is actually a curse on the Democrats, not us. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind and Sophia Compton contributed to this report.
Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
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