No change of heart. it's a total loss of leverage

DONALD Trump spent Sunday night doing what he does best: turning a crisis of his own creation into a spectacle, a tantrum and a self-pity parade all while insisting he has “nothing to hide” on Jeffrey Epstein.

- BY CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN

His Truth Social feed became a one-man rally, a blur of grievance, bravado and bile, as he tried to turn a humiliating political climbdown into a victory lap.

For months, Trump has been fighting his own party to stop the release of the Epstein files. He called it a “Democrat hoax.”

He smeared Republicans who supported transparency. He threw every accusation at the wall except the one that matters: why he is so desperate to stop the public from seeing those documents.