Theoretically today is the day that the Epstein Files are to be released to the House. I am skeptical that there won't be some sort of partial hiding of materials, but I wonder if the release of the partial files will give cover to people to leak the parts that the Department of Justice will try and hide.
What seems to be happening is that we are getting a lot more stories about what we might call the Epstein Class of billionaires and their hangers-on. Those stories can feed into Trump's overall cluelessness and detachment. If you are going to flip the Senate and create a Blue Tsunami, these stories really matter.
One thing we are seeing is the overload of Trump Fluffing from his sycophants. The "renaming" of the Kennedy Center (yes, it's illegal) is a great example of how warped the Washington, DC GOP class has become as they reshape their whole worlds to provide a constant stream of superficial plaudits to his fragile ego. Trump's need for gilded ballrooms, vanity projects and his indifference to actual policy simply gibes nicely with this idea of an Epstein Class.
His efforts to "change the narrative" with his bizarre rant the other night isn't working. Authoritarians don't course correct easily, and Trump is stupid and a narcissist making a course correction even harder.
If the files really are damning, how quickly does he fall?
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