Because his base isn't upset about those as much as they are about Epstein. He's underwater in polling on all those other things now, but his core base wasn't upset about it

Right wing media talked about Epstein a lot over the past many years. Claimed that Trump would give them all the truth. It became an ingrained belief. Then he abruptly and very suddenly contradicted all that at once and can't keep to a consistent narrative

He also directly insult his base in the back and forth. Calling them "weaklings", stupid, etc. for caring which he normally avoids doing. Normally he pretends to care about their concerns when coming up with a BS excuse

I mean... "one political party's figurehead literally raped children" isn't the worst reason for a crisis and things to grind to a halt.

The Qanon crowd largely thought Trump was going to expose a vast network of pedophiles in government and in power. They didn't really get that he was part of the pedophile ring.

It's very generous of you to say that we're "turning into" the most expensive laughing stock in the world.

The country falling apart, people getting kidnapped by masked police, unidentified government officers arresting people, ignoring citizens in natural disasters, government breaking down … all those things didn’t cause alarm bells?

That is not "falling apart" in the minds of Republicans, that is "working as designed".

Yeah they were doing awful shit, so derailing them is still a net win.

I bet everyone is looking to Miller for talking points and he just tells Don to go on Fox and say, “hey, I fuck kids. Lots of them. But only white kids.”

Come on, be fair, a rich person maybe suffering consequences is something that's never happened before!!!

Vance seems to be more of a furniophile.

Files are only held by DOJ, which actually has decent data leak protection in place because they needed it long before the current admin.

Because there is no benefit to the leaker.

Not to both sides the systematic rape of children but... both sides have major figures who rape children. So a career bureaucrat who gets caught leaking this (and they would) would have poor odds of a pardon and/or promotion by future politicians.

Release the unedited files you orange coward

The Epstein effect

For sure. It is clear that none in the Republican top likes each other, and they all loathe Trump and hate having to kiss his ass all the time. But they can't make a move as long as he has the Republican voterbase in his pocket.

For a short while it did seriously look like it caused a dent between Trump and his voters, but now it seems like they have already moved on, when they found out that the Epstein case didn't so much implicate Democrats as it did Trump.

I know people think the bad shit ends with the One Big Beautiful Obituary. But JD's handlers are competent people. And he's such a jellyfish that he might as well be an actual sock puppet.

Count on it. Peter Theil holds Vance's leash, and he will definitely want to put his Blood Boy in the chair. The question is: Will the other Sociopathic Oligarchs be comfortable with a different Sociopathic Oligarch getting all the power instead of them? HitlerPig is easy to deal with because he can be easily bought. Vance may not be so easily manipulated, since he has to follow Theil's orders.