4 in 10 Americans Believe Trump Involved in Epstein Crimes

U.S. president Donald Trump on Sunday urged House Republicans to vote for the release of files related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, marking a complete reversal from his original stance. In a message posted on Truth Social yesterday evening, the president wrote: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because 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, including our recent Victory on the Democrat ‘Shutdown’". The move comes shortly after GOP congressman Thomas Massie and Democratic congressman Ro Khanna, the two representatives leading the bipartisan push to make all of the Epstein files public, garnered enough signatures on a discharge petition to force the House to vote on making the Justice Department release all of the documents on the case. While Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were photographed together years ago, the president has long maintained they fell out before Epstein's crimes came to light.

As our infographic, based on YouGov data, shows, more than four out of ten people surveyed in the U.S. last week (44 percent) said they believe president Trump was involved in crimes allegedly committed by Jeffrey Epstein, while 32 percent believed in the president's innocence. Almost a quarter of respondents (24 percent) said they didn't know. Similarly, 41 percent of the people taking part in the study believed Donald Trump knew "a lot" about crimes Epstein may have committed before the allegations against him became public; only 9 percent of respondents said they didn't think the president knew anything of the financier's alleged crimes. Emails released last week by a House committee seemed to indicate that Donald Trump was aware that underage girls were victims of Epstein.