The Epstein Files are tearing MAGA apart.

Donald Trump now says that he wants a vote on the Epstein Files, too.

Is this a sign that Trump is losing his grip on the GOP?

And what does any of this have to do with Trump changing his mind about tariffs?

Welcome to the Reason Roundtable. This is your Libertarian Review of News and Culture from the editors

of Reason magazine and friends. I am your host, Peter Souterman, and today I'm joined by my

colleagues, Catherine Mangy Award, Nick Gillespie, and special guest, Reasons very own, Eric Bame.

Okay, so last week, 20,000 emails from Epstein were made public by the House Oversight Committee.

Some of them did mention Trump, but it's not clear they actually added a whole lot of new

information. It's not clear they really told us anything.

Trump's been trying to stop the House from having a vote to release even more files. We don't know what's in those files. But now, now after Trump trying for months to stop to stop the House from having a vote, he says he wants one after all. And some reports say that a vote could come as soon as Tuesday. Catherine, let's start with you. What do you

make of this? Why did Donald Trump flip? Why does Donald Trump do anything, man, to save his own

butt? Like, he realized that things were too far gone. I do always love a, like, last couple of

remaining libertarians on the Hill and Ro Khanna collab.

And this has that going for it.

Thomas Masty and kind of joined up to basically just do a like,

why don't you release those things already?

Bill, which has kind of put Trump against the wall. He has, to be clear, only said he favors the

House acting on it. He has declined to comment both about whether the Senate should do anything

and also about whether he would sign it if it came to his desk, which. And the reporting on the

Senate is that it faces long odds in the Senate, and also,

I guess he could veto it unless they get a veto-proof majority, which is something that Thomas

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