WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said House Republicans should vote to release the files in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a startling reversal after previously fighting the proposal as a growing number of those in his own party supported it.

“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 late Sunday after landing at Joint Base Andrews following a weekend in Florida.

Trump’s statement followed a fierce fight within the GOP over the files, including an increasingly nasty split with Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had long been one of his fiercest supporters.

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    21 hours ago

    Also the Founders: " Oh God is that a woman voting? Is that a black person who has rights? What are those filthy Irish people are doing everywhere? This government was only supposed to be for wealthy white landowning Anglo-Saxon Protestants."

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      Except they knew times would change, and so would those things in the public eye, so the document they wrote had to be malleable as well. If you think about it, while a lot of society has improved in respect to those topics, there’s still people who think that way, and we haven’t come as far as we should have in this time. So let’s not get too high and mighty because again, we could have been a lot further along by now.

      Keep in mind that future us will be doing the same thing, looking back at what we’re doing or not doing and wondering, wtf was their problem?