Between his effective takeover of Washington, D.C., and empty gestures like faux-banning flag-burning, Donald Trump has successfully bounced his Jeffrey Epstein scandal from mainstream news headlines. But there are still signs that the larger American public — including the conspiracist portion of Trump’s MAGA base — is not yet ready to move on. It remains true that the child sex predator once described Trump as his “closest friend” and that the White House has reneged on promises the president made during the 2024 campaign to release the voluminous FBI files collected over the course of two federal investigations into Epstein for sex crimes against minors.

Trump’s reason for the evasion is not mysterious. As the Wall Street Journal reported in July, Attorney General Pam Bondi allegedly t

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