Try as he might – and he really has tried – Donald Trump and his team cannot find an approach to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal that works for the increasingly embattled US President.

During the campaign to return Trump to the Oval Office, several of the leading figures in his orbit – including Kash Patel, now the FBI director, and Pam Bondi, the Attorney General – hammered the Epstein Files as an issue. Not only would they fully disclose the files, they promised, but they were sure it would show how complicit the Democrats were in Epstein’s crimes.

Trump himself, surely aware of his own long and close friendship with Epstein, was always more reticent to make big promises on document disclosures, but he seemingly did nothing to stop these pledges being made to his base, who clearly care deeply about the issue.

Once he was actually back in power, the tone soon changed. Bondi invited leading conspiracy influencers into her office, handing them huge binders of Epstein-related documents – only for it to emerge that they were just printouts of files that had long been in the public domain.

Each time the story surfaced over the summer, Trump........

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