President Donald Trump speaks during a bilateral meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office on November 18, 2025. Win McNamee/Getty Images

To paraphrase a perennial Washington question: What is the president going to release and when is he going to release it?

Donald Trump is reeling from a spectacular defeat, easily his worst from his own party on Capitol Hill during two turbulent presidencies, after every step he took to stall and deflect the Jeffrey Epstein saga blew up in his face.

No one would have believed as recently as this past weekend that a bill requiring the Justice Department to release files related to the convicted sex offender would race through the GOP Congress with only one vote against it by Tuesday evening.

But such can

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