Thomas Massie identifies two reasons why Trump “flipped” on the Epstein files. 1.) “He doesn’t want to embarrass his rich and powerful friends who’ve donated to him or go to his dinner parties. And they may, in fact, not even be guilty of a crime. They may just be very embarrassed that they were having extramarital sex with these women, for instance.” 2.) “But I think there’s also the intelligence aspect of this that goes even deeper. “Maybe Trump is on one plane and he’s thinking, ‘I can’t embarrass my friends.’ But there may be people in the administration who are career people who are thinking on another plane, like, ‘Well, let’s convince Trump he’s going to embarrass his friends, when in reality, what we’re trying to do is protect our sources and methods,’ which may involve sex trafficking. “And we don’t want to embarrass our partner Israel, at this time when the popularity for their war or support for their war is at an all-time low. And now we’re going to find out that their defense minister, Ehud Barak, was documented with Jeffrey Epstein three dozen times,” Massie explained. He suspects JD Vance, Pam Bondi, and Kash Patel were never read into those deeper details when they first pushed to release the Epstein files. “I mean, if it’s a hoax, what were those binders that Pam Bondi gave out?”