'It's a mystery to those closest to him': Trump's 'upset' has his inner circle scrambling
Donald Trump’s continuing reluctance to allow the opening the Jeffrey Epstein files to public scrutiny has members of his inner circle worried that he is hiding something from them, reports MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire.
The day after House and Senate Republicans joined with Democrats to adopt a bill to make the Epstein files public within 30 days, Lemire recalled that he is hearing from White House insiders that Trump is ”upset” despite protesting that he has nothing to worry about.
However, there are concerns among some insiders that the president is keeping them in the dark and therefore they can’t prepare a possible response.
Co-host Joe Scarborough prompted his colleague with, "Certainly, if there was a smoking gun in there, it would have already been released by now. And Epstein probably destroyed all incriminating evidence after he got arrested the first time. So again, the real mystery here is if all of that is true, why has he [Trump] been fighting this so hard against his own political best interests and declaring a war on his own MAGA base?”
"Well, it's not just a mystery to us,” Lemire replied. “What's perhaps so startling is it's a mystery to those closest to him. As I wrote last week about the Epstein matter, his inner circle at the White House, they don't know — they don't fully know.”
“They don't know why he's fighting it?” Scarborough asked.
"Why he's so upset, like what possibly could be in there,” Lemire replied. “There's a chance that Trump himself doesn't totally know this is material. There's no client list, per se — that's what MS NOW reporting has been all along. But there is, you know, a trove of materials, pictures, documents, letters, whatever it might be.”
“And it's not quite clear that Trump himself knows everything that's in there, partially because the estate has had some of it; it's not all just been in federal custody,” He added. “So that's part of it here. But it clearly angers him very much. And maybe it's there's no suggestion, there's nothing criminal about Trump, but potentially embarrassing about him or someone very close to him.”
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