You don’t usually have to wonder very much about how Donald Trump feels about a particular issue. He doesn’t like Iranian jihadis, for example. That seems clear. He also doesn’t like the Jew-haters who run most of our major universities. He loves huge government programs and has no interest in cutting federal spending unless it is spending done by his political opponents. He maintains an intense dislike for leftist prosecutors, both local and federal, who brought charges against him to jail him or defame him, and prevent him from being re-elected president. He resents the theft of the 2020 presidential election. He strongly disapproves of the race hatred and discrimination embedded in DEI and affirmative action programs. He thinks, for some reason, that tariffs are a powerful tool for economic growth.
I agree with him on many of these things, and not so much on some. But I feel I know where he stands. He will occasionally say the opposite of what he believes for rhetorical reasons, or to further negotiations, or simply to bluster and confuse his enemies, but those tactics are easy to spot. “Take him seriously but not literally” has always been sound advice when trying to understand Donald Trump.
However, I don’t know how he feels about the Epstein saga, the millions of documents detailing Epstein’s activities, the legal pursuit of men who committed sex or trafficking crimes against underage girls, or the responsibility of the Department of Justice to track down those men and prosecute them.
It would have been easy to handle this problem on January 20, 2025. He could have issued an executive order, along with all the others he signed that day, instructing his Attorney General to review all the Epstein documents, redact identifying information about the girl victims, and publish the lot. Doing that would have satisfied his MAGA base and millions of others who wanted some type of justice to be done. He had promised, or at least suggested, he would do something like that.
And then nothing happened. Or rather a lot of things happened that never satisfied anybody. And so the issue remains, sitting there, a turd in the Trump Administration punchbowl.
AG Pam Bondi was supposed to deal with the Epstein problem and she never quite did. In February 2025, in an interview, she was asked if there was a list of Epstein’s “clients” (buddies? co-conspirators?), and would it be released. She replied that it was “sitting on my desk right now.” Then, five months later, after repeated inquiries, the “DOJ” (and not Bondi personally), said there was no such list. Around the same time, Trump called the ongoing controversy a “Democratic hoax,” and said it was being used by the Democrats to distract the public from all the accomplishments in the first six months of his administration. Which was probably true, of course, but he could have ordered all the documents released to end the distraction. And he didn’t.
Then Congress stepped in and passed a bill ordering all the Epstein files to be released. Trump even signed it, on November 25. It ordered the DOJ to disclose all their Epstein investigation files, and in December 2025 and January 2026, somewhere around 3.5 million documents were released. Todd Blache, who was Bondi’s deputy at the time, said there were 6 million documents being reviewed, which suggests there are still more than 2 million documents that have not been made public.
The latest major development was the firing of Pam Bondi as AG on April 2. She was replaced, for now at least, by Todd Blanche, her former deputy. In his first press conference as interim AG, he was asked about the Epstein documents and stated that no more would be released. And when asked about whether there would be prosecutions of men for sex crimes based on information contained in the files, he did not say it was impossible but made it clear no effort was being expended to build any such cases. Ghislane Maxwell, Epstein’s general factotum, is still the only person prosecuted and jailed for assisting Epstein in his abuse and trafficking of young girls.
And THAT, it would appear, is THAT.
Trump himself has not commented on the current state of l’affaire Epstein (which he brought about with the Bondi firing), so we must assume he is content with it. At various times he has said that Epstein’s victims deserve justice and at other times he has belittled the entire issue as fraudulent. Now he has killed the investigation entirely. I wonder why. I truly wish I had some insight into his thinking here because, as I will explain, it probably will result in the effective end of his presidency.
Obsessive Trump-haters (a category that includes the New York Times), will tell you, as they have for years now, that he fears his own sex abuse/pedophilia/scummy behavior will be revealed in the Epstein files and he simply wants to prevent the disclosure of evidence about his own crimes.
These are not serious people. Trump’s denials themselves mean nothing, of course, but if he had been banging 14-year-olds supplied by Epstein or other cronies, it would have come to light fifty years ago. Guys aged 79 are not suddenly revealed to be pedophiles and rapists and sex scum. It happens in their 20s and 30s and there are usually dozens of women telling basically the same story. That never happened with Trump.
Even more telling is the fact that these millions of Epstein documents were sitting (somewhere) in the DOJ for eight years of Obama and four years of Biden. If there had been something that could have destroyed Trump’s reputation and his rise to power, it would have been leaked. The Democrats in Washington and elsewhere around the country tried EVERYTHING to stop him. They were willing to prosecute him anywhere, for anything, to stop him from becoming president. They even rooted through Melania’s underwear drawer.
So the people who think Trump is merely protecting himself (or even that he started the Iran War to distract the public from the Epstein issue!), well, I said above they are “not serious people.” Actually, they are incapable of coherent thought, perhaps because of their consuming hatred for the man. It makes them irrational.
However, I don’t have a good explanation for Trump’s actions on the Epstein files over the past 16 months. He could have ended this at any time by dumping all the files into the public domain. He still could. But he won’t. And as for why he won’t, all I have is a theory.
The richest guy I ever met was the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar corporation. He had a wife and four kids, was married for decades, and had never been faithful to his wife. He was a high-energy guy who never lost sight of the bottom line, and he worked 70 or 80 hours a week. He once told me, “Women are pussies with garbage cans on top.”
There are a lot of guys like him, and a lot of the men in the Epstein files live his lifestyle and share his views. They work hard, they have tons of money, and they have no patience for timewasters or waiting in line at restaurants and airports. They want to have sex with young attractive women or girls, but they don’t have the time or interest in wooing them and they lack the social skills to even attempt it.
Donald Trump knows these men, who are professionals, businessmen, celebrities, executives, salesmen, financiers, politicians, bankers, and even a former prince named Andrew. He knows hundreds of them, or even thousands. And he likes them. He likes them because they are “important” just like he is, and he doesn’t care much about their behavior. They lie, but lying is part of what they must do. They intimidate people to get what they want, and they may go up to the limits of the law (or even a bit beyond), but that’s just who they are. They’re “tough guys,” again just like he is.
He likes them. He genuinely admires and respects them.
He likes Bill Clinton, the serial rapist, sociopath, and co-conspirator in selling his wife’s Secretary of State office to any tyrant and torturer who was willing to pay him a million bucks for a fifteen-minute speech. “I like Bill Clinton,” says Trump. “I like his behavior toward me. I think he understood me.”
He likes Putin too, of course. I mean, how does anybody LIKE Putin?
And Xi Jinping? Trump calls him a “brilliant leader.” He admires Xi’s strength and decisiveness. “I got along with him great,” says Donald Trump. The genocide of the Uighurs? The dead-of-night purges of political rivals? Having organs removed from prisoners and implanted into rich guys? President Trump doesn’t talk much about some of Xi’s more unsavory activities, or maybe all that is part of the decisiveness and strength he admires.
He even got along with Epstein himself for quite a while, until Epstein began to pursue the young daughter of a Mar-A-Lago member. At that point, Trump dumped Jeffrey, not because he necessarily disapproved of him, but because he became a threat to one of Trump’s business relationships.
And that’s the only theory that, in the world I see, fits all the facts. Trump wants to bury (and has buried), the Epstein documents because there are lots of “important men” and “tough guys” that he doesn’t want exposed as creepy sexpests and sexual scumbags. He likes them. He feels it would be somehow unfair to expose them to public scrutiny.
The problem is that none of his MAGA people or other Republicans agree with him. The people who voted for Trump have always wanted the Epstein pedophiles and traffickers and sexual harassers to be exposed and prosecuted, and they assumed (from Trump’s promises), that he would do so. Now that it seems clear he will not, much of his support will drift away. On this one issue, he has betrayed almost everyone who supported him. He does not understand how important this is to the people who put him in office.
I am a Trump fan. I think he already has some wonderful achievements, and there may be many more. But no matter how well he does in Iran, and how many Salvadoran rapists he deports, and how many useless federal employees he fires, and how many racist DEI programs he shuts down, and how strong the economy is, I am afraid that the 2026 mid-terms will be the end of Trumps agenda simply because he refused to follow through on his promise to blow up the world of Epstein and all his buddies. Once the Democrats get Congress, the impeachments and the investigations and all the other phony outrage starts up all over again, and the Trump presidency will be effectively over.
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