Trump Slams the Brakes, Then Floors It

The president has suddenly flipped on releasing the Epstein files

President Trump has done a sharp U-turn. After trying hard to stop House Republicans from forcing the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, he’s suddenly urging them to vote yes.

This comes after days of heavy pressure on GOP lawmakers. He even called Rep. Lauren Boebert to the White House Situation Room. She still refused to pull her name off the discharge petition.

Trump also spent the week attacking Marjorie Taylor Greene on Truth Social after she pushed to release the files. Their breakup got loud and messy.

There’s still no clear reason for Trump’s about-face. The most obvious explanation is simple math: Republicans in the House looked ready to defy him, and the vote was likely to pass anyway.

But the next steps are murky. Trump controls the Justice Department, so no one knows how quickly the files will be released, how much will be redacted, or how trustworthy the documents will be after they run through his DOJ.

Back in July, there were reports that FBI agents were told to go through the files and flag every time Trump’s name came up. No one has ever explained why.

And Trump has ordered new investigations into Democrats’ ties to Epstein — raising the fear that the DOJ could claim it’s an “active investigation” and shut the files again.

It’s been a strange loop. Trump keeps calling the whole thing a “hoax,” but then orders more investigations into that same “hoax.” Whether the Epstein story is fake or serious seems to be Schrödinger’s Cat — both at once, depending on what he needs in the moment.

All this follows Wednesday’s bombshell release of more than twenty thousand Epstein emails. In one of them, Epstein wrote that Trump once “spent hours at my house” with a young woman who later accused Epstein of abusing and trafficking her when she was a teenager.

The stakes are only getting higher. The vote is coming, and the political fallout is nowhere near over.