It's insulting our intelligence.

Like, obviously the intelligence community is trying to cover it up.

Obviously, the Trump administration is trying to cover up.

Something changed because they ran on this idea of exposing it all.

I believe the country deserves transparency in these files.

When you have this one hardcore line in the sand that everybody had been talking about forever,

and then they're trying to gaslight you on that.

How many of you are not satisfied with the results of the investing?

Uh-oh. Hi again, everybody. It's five o'clock in New York. Never before in his political life had Donald Trump

dealt with this. Never before had he faced anger, this much anger and backlash from his loyal,

faithful MAGA coalition, and especially that hardcore base. Calls for the release of

the Epstein files became the undeniable first riff, the original sin, that will not and would not go

away. In any attempt to quell the furor and the appetite of his core supporters only enraged them even more.

In a breathtaking new piece of reporting published in New York Magazine,

adopted from reporting for an upcoming book called Regime Change,

journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reveal a White House rocked

and completely thrown off by indecision and concern as they

navigated what to do with the Epstein files. They write this, quote, behind the scenes,

the Epstein crisis was paralyzing the Trump administration to a far greater extent than the

public knew. In their public statements, Trump's advisors were full of bravado

dismissing the crisis, but in reality, it was consuming the highest ranks of the administration

as no issue had for the president's team since the Russia investigation in his first term.

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