Donald Trump is increasingly frustrated with how his administration’s handling of the furor around the Jeffrey Epstein files has dominated the news and overshadowed his agenda, said two people familiar with his thinking.

His exasperation follows weeks of missteps and no clear strategy among top officials who underestimated the outrage, especially from the president’s base, and hoped the country would forget about the unreleased Epstein files and move on, according to nearly a dozen people close to the situation, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose internal deliberations.

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    What’s wild is, if he just released it, even if it showed he was in fact the number one guy, even more involved than Epstein himself, not a single one of his worshipers would care about that. He’s the infallible god king, they’d say his part was a necessary and good thing. They’re just mad that he’s holding out on them and not giving them dirt on the ‘evil Democrats’.

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      I mean, it has to be really bad right? At this point not releasing it is a terrible option unless it’s a smoking gun that outright demonstrates he’s been inappropriate with minors. He’s taking on water over this, the alternate must be worse.

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      If his approval rating drops below 30% I’ll fly to Washington D.C. and walk down the mall naked flagellating myself with a dozen MAGA hats.