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Trump was 'biggest obstacle' for insiders 'paralyzed' by the Epstein scandal
Trump Could Bend Institutions. He Could Not Bend the Epstein File.The Real Power Was Always ThereThe source story is simple enough: Trump’s own aides treated the Epstein matter as a political fire they could not extinguish, and Trump himself made that worse by trying to bury it. That is the point. The administration was not confused; it was trapped by the usual problem of concentrated power meeting an unkillable fact pattern.The people with actual institutional power were Trump and the officials around him. They controlled the Justice Department, the White House message machine, and the legal…
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