Poltical reality, and not some sort of remorse that he was treating former allies abominably, drove Trump’s reversal on release of the Epstein files. From David Haggith at thedailydoom.com:
This has been a time of turning–a hard 180 over the past week by stocks, and an equally hard 180 by the president this weekend over the Epstein Files.
The president is spinning so quickly, he may fall over.
Only a week ago, maybe less, President Trump demanded voters fire Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of his most ardent supporters for years, because of her nonsense push (in his opinion) to release the Epstein Files. Trump said “She’s lost her way,” and said that all Republicans should have nothing to do with taking the bait to release files of such a “Democrat hoax,” and he noted disparagingly that “a couple of few Republicans have gone along with it because they are weak and ineffective.”
“Marjorie Traitor Greene,” he wrote, “is a disgrace to our great Republican Party.” On Truth Social, Trump continued the thought: “All I see ‘Wacky’ Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!” He, then, referred to her as “a ranting lunatic … who attacked me and lied about me.”
Green responded, “It’s astonishing, really, how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein Files from coming out that he actually goes to this level.” She even claimed she’s been getting death threats due to how harshly Trump has turned against her. “I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world,” Greene posted to X on Saturday.
In the meantime, House Speaker Mike Johnson has finally stopped stalling and scheduled a vote to release the files, leaving no need for the petition that was intended to force a vote on releasing the files past Johnson. Likely, he did the twist because he saw the petition would easily win, as momentum was quickly building, so he wanted to finally get on the right side of the issue. Once they knew they were going to be put on the record as to whether they wanted the files released, the “couple of few Republicans” Trump mentioned instantly turned into a large number, and it became clear that, with the support of many Democrats, the House easily had the votes to get the files released at last. (Whether the Senate will vote the same way is still another story for another day.)
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