So is this whole Epstein Files mess going to boil down to Donald Trump insisting that all the mentions of Democrats are absolutely true and those people should all be in prison, whereas all the mentions of him are phony? I dunno how much of the population's going to buy that. I think by now most of the folks who supported Trump know that he reflexively says that about anything and everything that reflects badly on him. They might say he's a great and moral leader. They might tell pollsters that. But I think they just have a lower opinion of the Dems.
In American politics, you don't support the one you like most. You support the one you fear least. And you try to convince others and maybe yourself he's all you want him to be.
That's what I think. At least at four in the morning.