Trump’s Epstein problem is snowballing – and he looks increasingly desperate ...Middle East

WASHINGTON DC – Donald Trump did something very unusual on Wednesday night, possibly even unique in the annals of his second term in office. He resisted the temptation to talk.

As the US President brought the country’s longest-ever government shutdown (at least, until the next one in February) to an end, he asked reporters whether they had any questions. But when members of the White House press corps peppered him with inquiries about emails that appear to show Trump may have had a deeper level of involvement with, and knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s sordid and illegal activities, the US President kept his counsel. Tight-lipped is not his usual operating principle. But when it came to Epstein, at least on Wednesday night, the cat made off with his tongue.

Next week, members of the House of Representatives will vote on whether to require Trump’s government to release all files in the Justice Department’s possession relating to the disgraced and deceased financier. Given that many voters among the Make America Great Again (Maga) faithful are demanding the full transparency that Trump promised on the campaign trail last year, the White House is braced for a substantial number of Republican defections.

Many Maga supporters are proven, dyed-in-the-wool conspiracy theorists. But you don’t need to be one of them to recognise that something very fishy has been going on behind White House walls to stop the files from being released.

In February, Attorney General Pam Bondi told Americans that documents relating to Epstein (his so-called client list) were “sitting on my desk right now to review”. She cited “a directive by Trump”, indicating that once her review was complete, the files would be publicly released.

By July, her own Department of Justice stunned Epstein’s victims and their families by suddenly announcing that “no incriminating ‘client list’” existed. The only Epstein materials in the Department’s possession were described as “intertwined” with sensitive information (Bondi indicated that much of it was pornographic in nature), and therefore “no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted”.

Five days later, as fury convulsed Maga, Trump tried to tough it out. In a posting on social media, he urged his supporters to stop “going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB”. Epstein, he groused, was proving to be “a guy who never dies”. He also claimed, without providing any proof, that the Epstein documents were “written by [Barack] Obama, Crooked Hillary [Clinton]…and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration”.

As we hurtle towards the end of the year, two things remain clear: first, the Epstein story remains a smouldering depth charge beneath Trump’s presidency, and secondly, that he continues to go to extraordinary lengths to try and prevent the release of any more documents.

This week, in another twist, he tried to persuade one key Republican to withdraw her signature from a petition that has narrowly secured sufficient backers to force next week’s House vote on releasing all the files. Trump phoned Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, a Maga Republican from Colorado, then personally summoned her to the White House for a meeting that occurred in the highly secure confines of the Situation Room. There, Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel were reported to have discussed her demands. The White House provided no readout of the meeting, but Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said it was an example of Trump’s “transparency” and his willingness “to sit down with members of Congress and address their concerns”.

With his options to block the House vote narrowing, Trump can retain some confidence that the Senate is less likely to join calls for the files’ release. Trump would also be able to veto any Senate vote that failed to go his way. But their mere backing of the measure by the House will create fresh and unwelcome traction beneath the story.

While it is impossible to know whether Trump has specific fears about the contents of the unreleased files, Bondi steadfastly refused to answer questions last month about any mentions of the US President that may be contained within them. Testifying under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee, she stonewalled as multiple Democrats tried to secure information. “Eventually you’re going to have to answer for your conduct,” warned Illinois Senator Dick Durbin. “You won’t do it today, but eventually you will,” he threatened.

In one email released by House Democrats on Tuesday, Epstein suggests that he had pictures “of Donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen”. The author Michael Wolff has previously claimed that Epstein showed him pictures of Trump accompanied by topless women or girls of unknown ages at the sex trafficker’s Palm Beach home. Whether those pictures even exist, or are held within the FBI’s files, is unclear.

A Trump team spokesperson accused Wolff of “lying for attention” during the presidential election campaign last year, adding: “Michael Wolff is a disgraced writer who routinely fabricates lies in order to sell fiction books because he clearly has no morals or ethics. He waited until days before the election to make outlandish false smears, all in an effort to engage in blatant election interference on behalf of Kamala Harris.” Trump has said he cut ties with Epstein long before the financier was indicted and that he did not know of Epstein’s abuse.

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However, with each release of documents, questions only intensify about the US President’s involvement with a man he claims to have thrown out of his Mar-a-Lago resort in perhaps 2004.

The timing of this week’s release may have queered Ghislaine Maxwell’s plans to ask Trump to commute her 20-year prison sentence. Epstein’s girlfriend is now residing at a lower-security prison in Texas, after she spent two days earlier this year being interviewed by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who just happens also to be Trump’s former personal lawyer. On Wednesday, Leavitt said Maxwell’s application for a commutation was currently off the table. “It’s not something he’s talking about or even thinking about at this moment in time”, she told reporters.

At the White House on Thursday, First Lady Melania Trump made a rare appearance alongside her husband, as he signed an executive order that he claimed would improve the foster care system in the United States. White House officials ensured that the East Room was packed with members of his inner circle, along with families supportive of the US President’s proclamation. Thanks to the crowd, he managed to evade fresh questions from the press about Epstein for a second consecutive day. But they are not going away, and in the days ahead are likely only to intensify.

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