Trump 'faces two choices' in Epstein scandal –– and both are bad for him: analyst

Based upon growing suspicions engulfing a substantial number of Donald Trump's MAGA base, there is no way that the president will be able to escape unscathed from the Jefferey Epstein files scandal.

With the possibility that a bi-partisan proposal to release the files is expected in the House on Tuesday, the embattled president ultimately has only two paths available to him to calm the waters and it is up to the president to pick his poison despite the fact that neither will be palatable to him.

In a column for the New Republic, Alex Shephard wrote that president will have to decide whether to throw caution to the wind and refuse to release the files, thereby infuriating his supporters who already feel betrayed, or release it all and expose the depth of his relationship with the accused pedophile.

According to Shephard the "Epstein scandal threatens to be something similar, and possibly worse," than accusations that the president was in the pocket of the Kremlin in what was called "Russiagate."

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"As with Russiagate, it seems possible—perhaps even likely—that the most salacious allegations will be false; there is, for instance, no evidence that Trump visited Epstein’s notorious private island," he wrote before suggesting that won't matter.

"Trump again faces two clear choices, and both are bad," the analyst maintained. "He can continue to stonewall the release of all files on Epstein and hope that people move on (which they probably won’t do), or he can release everything and have to own up to the fact that he was friends with the twenty-first century’s most notorious pedophile (that is, assuming he wasn’t also an Epstein client)."

For now Trump is playing the waiting game, hoping a drip-drip-drip release of Epstein info will calm people down which does not appear to be panning out for him based upon a Saturday morning Truth Social rant where he ordered a more detailed Grand Jury release which was followed by a complaint that "nothing will be good enough."

Shephard concluded, "It seems highly unlikely that will satisfy anyone, particularly those in MAGA who have been demanding the full release of the 'Epstein files.'"

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