Domenico Montanaro

That's not it's not credible, but you don't know what Trump is actually thinking, except just please move on and let this go.

Yeah.

And this has been a story that's just been gnawing and nagging at Donald Trump.

I mean, it clearly is something that he feels hurts him politically.

And if you don't believe the polls that have been out there, including our own late last year, we had a survey that showed 61 percent of people disapproved of how the Trump administration was handling the Epstein files.

Of course, that was before all of these pages of files were released that we're talking about here.

But look at his actions.

I mean, very much on the defensive, you know, getting irritated with a CNN reporter, Caitlin Collins, because of her third question on this, instead deflecting and saying, I've known you for a decade.

Why don't you smile more?

I've never seen you smile.

Yeah.

Threatening to sue Trevor Noah for really what was a throwaway joke at the Grammys about it.

Him, again, saying that you should move on.

This all clearly gets under his skin.

And he doesn't like that he feels like he's constantly put under the spotlight and associated with somebody who obviously is accused of very bad things.

Politics is one aspect of the Epstein files.

But while we cover politics, I don't think it's the overwhelming and overriding.

important factor of the Epstein files or what Jeffrey Epstein meant, right?

I mean, there's this broader story here of powerful men with power and influence and money who are named in a lot of these things.

Not all of it points to criminal activity necessarily, but certainly lends itself to Jeffrey Epstein having cultivated a cadre of men who he could sort of insulate himself in case there were potential problems.