A bill in Congress demanding the release of the Epstein files now has the official, albeit reluctant, endorsement of the president himself. And so the question naturally arises: If Donald Trump supports the bill calling on the president (i.e., him) to release the files, why not simply … release them?

Trump reportedly hasn’t given his advisers or allies a rationale for why he won’t do so, leaving them to invent reasons of their own. The answer they’ve come up with is that Trump is innocent and is acting guilty for no reason whatsoever. “He looks like he has something to hide even if he doesn’t,” asserts the Wall Street Journal editorial page. “This is a self-inflicted wound,” complains Megyn Kelly.

But why has Trump chosen to inflict this wound upon himself? A Trump ally suggests to Polit

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