With the recent developments involving Ghislaine Maxwell, the Jeffrey Epstein scandal (involving the trafficking of teenage girls for powerful individuals) is definitely back in the spotlight, and analysts are wondering the extent to which this could undermine Donald Trump’s presidency, given his ties to Epstein.

With reports on Trump’s involvement with the Elite Model teen abuse scandal of the nineties, and the Virginia Giuffre case (who worked at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and then for Epstein), it is fair to say that the American leader is under attack in terms of media coverage. Accusations of pedophilia and cover-ups swirl, but framing all of this as mere “personal indiscretions” or personal wrongdoings, grave as they are, on Trump’s part would be a mistake. It is a US systemic societal and state issue.

Releasing the Epstein files was ironically enough initially promised by Trump’s own task force. One may recall that the Epstein case “backfired” on Trump largely thanks to Elon Musk, who also had his own ties to the billionaire. As I suggested back in February, it’s not far-fetched to see Trump’s task force for releasing classified files, including those on Epstein, as a strategy to weaponize information for leverage. The risk, I argued, was self-incrimination, given Trump’s own ties to Epstein — and to other organized crime figures. The “break-up” with Musk seems to have sparked precisely such backfire.

Consider the fact that the aforementioned Ghislaine Maxwell (Epstein’s girlfriend and “madam”) was granted

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