Trump’s ‘Epstein Hoax’ Remark Firmly Rejected in Republican’s Online Poll

An online survey led by the republican representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky found that the overwhelming majority of 76,500 respondents did not agree with President Donald Trump that the Epstein affair was a hoax.

Nowsweek Contact the Massie office to comment by e-mail outside normal opening hours on Saturday.

Why it matters

Trump continues to deal with the reaction on the processing by his administration of the publication of files related to the sex offender condemned Jeffrey Epstein, much believing that the files will explain rich and powerful people who have participated or beneficiaries of the Epstein sexual operation.

Earlier this week, the Chamber’s supervisory committee published more than 30,000 pages of documents related to the case, most of which had already been made public and which seemed to repress the request for more responses and transparency related to files.

What to know

Friday, Massie launched a survey on X to assess the feeling of the public about the Epstein case, framing it with the repeated description of Trump “Hoax”.

He asked the X users: “Is it a hoax that Jeffrey Epstein was involved in the sexual traffic of minors, and there are unpublished evidence that would probably expose rich authors and politically connected to the indictment or to the convictions?”

When the survey ended on Saturday morning, 76,714 users had voted. While 6.3% agreed that “the Epstein case is a hoax”, 93.7% said: “No. Release Epstein Files”.

Massie has become an eminent voice among the Republicans of the Congress calling for the release of Epstein files, which has given her a direct conflict with Trump in recent weeks.

While the Kentucky republican has put pressure on the government to disclose all the files, the president of the chamber, Mike Johnson, urged him to abandon the problem, saying this week that the power of assignment of the Chamber’s supervisory committee would prove enough to discover any relevant information.

However, Massie persisted, gaining growing support from Democrats while the Republicans fade after Johnson’s insistence.

In July, the member of the congress returned his request related to the case, co -produced by the Democrat representative Ro Khanna of California, to the Chamber. Since he has made no progress, he has pressure for a discharge petition, which opened its doors on September 2, quickly accumulating 215 of the 218 signatures necessary to go to the ground.

On Thursday, the Democrat representative Daniel Goldman of New York became the last legislator to sign the petition. The Nancy Mace representatives of South Carolina, Lauren Boebert du Colorado and Marjorie Taylor Greene de Georgie are so far the only Republicans other than Massie to sign.

On Friday, Trump called again at the end of any effort to force the release of the files, saying that it was “time to end the Democrat hoax of Epstein”.

In a long article on Truth Social, Trump compared the case to democratic efforts to link it to Russia, saying that the Democrats did it “to divert and distract from the great success of a republican president”. He added that the Ministry of Justice had “done his job” and “given everything that asked them”.

What is a discharge petition?

The discharge petition, in the language of the House of Representatives, is a mechanism which “provides a means for members to bring to the ground for examination a bill or a public resolution which was referred to the committee but not reported”.

The mechanism is the only means by which the members of the chamber can obtain consideration without the help of a committee or majority leadership, the Congress website claiming that the mechanism was “designed to be difficult to accomplish”.

How does the discharge petition work?

A member cannot continue his release only after a measure has been referred to a committee for at least 30 legislative days. In other words, only when the house is in session. The house clerk meticulously follows the signatories on a discharge petition, with weekly updates to the members who have added or deleted their name.

The petition needs 218 signatures to pass. Once it has reached this threshold, the list of names is frozen and printed, and the motion is inscribed in the House Journal, after which seven legislative days must spend a member which signed the petition can inform the chamber in a declaration of intention to offer the motion on the ground.

The room speaker then has two days to plan the motion, although this does not happen in the last six days of a session of the congress.

What people say

The White House spokesman Abigail Jackson, said Nowsweek In a declaration sent by e-mail: “As the president rightly stressed, the Democrats have known Epstein victims for years and have done nothing to help them. President Trump and the Republican party have been calling for transparency for years – and now delivering it with thousands of documents of documents. The real hoax is that Democrats are now used by these victims to get rid of the fall of the Democrats.

President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday: “The now dying (after the Doj has given thousands of pages of documents in full compliance with a very complete and demanding assignment of the Congress!) Epstein Case was only brought back to life by radical left -wing democrats because they do so badly, with the lowest election number in party history (16%), while the Republicans do so well, among the highest approval issues.

The accuser of Epstein, Marina Lacerda, said at a press conference on Capitol Hill: “It is not a hoax. It does not disappear.”