This is a monumentally absurd reading: Trump’s own long-time opposition to releasing the files is what created the—correct—impression of a cover-up, building pressure for disclosure and leaving him no option but to climb aboard. At any point during this saga Trump could have backed release of the files and not gotten forced into it. Heck, he could have ordered this himself. He—and he alone—is the author of this mess. But that aside, we suspect Trump is enraged for another reason entirely: His aura of mastery over the GOP has now been shattered.
As Greene notes, Trump depicted her as a “traitor” for supporting the discharge petition compelling a House vote on release of the files, i.e. the trove of investigative materials gathered in the Justice Department’s investigations of Epstein’s sex trafficking. That’s a reference to Trump’s explosion of fury at Greene earlier this week, in which he angrily declared that he no longer supports her due to her Epstein apostasy.
Indeed, if you think about it, even Trump’s sudden about-face, at bottom, is really about maintaining that perception of mastery. Faced with certain defections, what Trump feared most was the spectacle of Republicans not doing his express bidding. In calling for release himself, Trump was not primarily concerned with appearing transparent; rather, he was making an eleventh-hour effort to create the impression that he—and he alone—is dictating this GOP outcome.
“It is a hoax by the Democrats against Trump,” Mr. Nehls said, lighting a cigar on the steps of the Capitol.
“Why not?” he replied. “Trump said just release the damn files. He said do it — release the damn files.”
What is surely most galling to Trump in the above video is Greene’s straightforward declaration that Trump was unable to control the course of events. Not by calling her a “traitor.” Not by privately pressuring Republicans. Not by raging on Truth Social that the Epstein files are a “Democrat hoax.” His control over what information enters and exits the ears and minds of MAGA voters turns out not to be absolute, after all.
Obviously, Trump’s grip on the Republican Party is still quite formidable. But that grip is plainly loosening on many fronts. Trump has failed to bully Indiana Republicans into joining his corrupt gerrymandering scheme. More than once a handful of GOP senators have joined Democrats to vote to undo some of his tariffs. Trump’s prosecutions of Democratic enemies are running aground precisely because Justice Department officials appointed by him or picked by his attorney general won’t go along. And as Kyle Cheney notes, Trump has failed to get Republicans to nix the filibuster or end the power of GOP senators to block home-state appointments.
But how much longer can that dynamic hold? In purely political terms, the longer Trump does keep the files suppressed, the worse it is for him and the GOP. In this regard, it’s worth noting an amusing irony: Now that Republicans are going all in with the fiction that the files are getting released because Trump wants it so—now that they must maintain the propagandistic illusion that Trump couldn’t care less if the files are released—it’ll be even harder to spin right around and defend future efforts to keep them buried nonetheless.
What we’re now learning, above all, is that Trump appears to wield absolute mastery over the GOP … until he doesn’t, and can no longer sustain that illusion. And when the illusion has been shattered, reality quickly follows suit.
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