Senior White House Official Warns About The Real Threat To Trump And It's Not Epstein

Both houses of Congress have now overwhelmingly passed a law calling for the Justice Department to release the Epstein files. It represents a major shift from a few weeks ago, when President Donald Trump was adamantly against any such release, and most elected Republicans were with him on that as well.

The Daily Mail has published an analysis of what happened during that time. And the key takeaway is not that the files release will uncover wrongdoing by the president- but rather that this episode shows the president’s grip on the GOP is loosening.

“I very much doubt Trump has to fear a smoking gun. If there was anything truly damning about him in the files, it would surely have come out by now, given the number of people who’ve had access to them over the years, including many of his enemies,” Andrew Neil, the Mail’s columnist, wrote in the column.

MAGA has never explained why Trump is almost in every single Epstein photo… pic.twitter.com/RkmyDq4Xhi

— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) November 19, 2025

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“But it was worse than humiliating that he had to agree to them becoming public — it was the starkest indication yet that he’s losing his grip over the MAGA movement, through which he’s hitherto ruled the Republican Party with an iron hand.”

And not only that, but many very conservative Republicans who are normally loyal to Trump were among the loudest voices calling for the files to be released.

Epstein documents gonna look like this when they “release the files”: https://t.co/xp7YLBMAU8 pic.twitter.com/8huqYHwSVv

— ☠️ Lilith Lovett ☠️ same @ on 💙☁️🦋 (@LilithLovett) November 17, 2025

“Trump campaigned to release the Epstein files ahead of last year’s presidential election. He vowed to do so in a broadcast interview. It was one of the issues that fired up his MAGA base, whose outer reaches have long thought the files would vindicate their bizarre belief that there is an extensive pedophile ring operating at the heart of the federal government,” Neil wrote for the Daily Mail.

“Yet when Trump was safely ensconced back in the White House, he changed his mind, for reasons that remain inexplicable, especially since it made him look as if he had something to hide (which he probably hasn’t). Suddenly it was all a ‘Democratic hoax’ to publish them. Nobody bought that.”

The question is whether Trump can regain control of the party he’s led for over a decade, or if this is the beginning of his lame duck period.

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