Three ways of scandal with Epstein can go for Trump

If Republican leaders in Washington hoped that the one -month congress indentation would help Jeffrey Epstein’s dispute disappear, the rage of activity this week has rejected these hopes – at least for now.

Last Friday, the Ministry of Justice launched more than 33,000 pages of documents related to Epstein’s investigation into sex trafficking for children. By Monday, consensus was formed that the greater part of the information was already publicly available or of little interest.

At the beginning of the week, the Republican Thomas Tables of Kentucky and Democrat Ro Hannah of California resumed their efforts to gather support for a “petition to dismiss responsibility” in the House of Representatives to force the public release of all the government’s case of the government.

On Wednesday, a group of victims of Epstein and their families conducted a press conference on the steps of Capitol to support the petition to discharge and to request full disclosure in the Epstein case.

Taken together, this is the kind of attention of the attention that helped the story penetrate the awareness of the greater public. But will it stay there? Here are the possible scenarios for what happens afterwards.

The victim’s press conference may mark a dramatic turn in the Epstein saga.

They were missing from the Washington dialogue, which focused on customer lists and the possible participation of the rich and the powerful, were the faces of those whose life was damaged or destroyed as children in Epstein’s crimes.

The collection in Capitol on Wednesday put these victims in the front and in the center – with an additional promise that they will not be muted.

For months, Donald Trump has been trying to break criticism of processing his administration in the Epstein case as a “fraud” committed by his political enemies.

This strategy, though effective in the past, is becoming more difficult in this case.

And if the tables and the khana are able to force the vote to publicly release all other Epstein files – and there is a new, politically harmful information involving Trump or other high -ranking political figures – the dam may break.

The White House denied a Wall Street Journal report that Trump had said in May by his prosecutor’s General that his name was appearing in files related to investigations against Epstein, who had taken his own life in a court -expecting trial.

He was friends with Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s, but being baptized is not proof of any criminal activity. Trump has never been accused by investigators of misconduct with Epstein Matter.

Even if there is no “client list” of the rich and powerful Epstein, victims may exist. They promised to collect the names of those who said they had close ties with Epstein and were related to his atrocities.

“I’m not afraid to name names,” said Majori Taylor Green of Georgia, one of the Republican members of the Congress and usually Trump’s loyalist. “So if they want to give me a list, I will enter this capitol on the floor of the house and I will say every damn name that abuses these women.”

These are the kind of ingredients that could ignite the flames in the history of Epstein when summer becomes the fall.

There may be nothing new about new Epstein documents to do it in the public space. Or maybe Congress’ efforts to force public disclosure to fall simply. Even as victims and their families become more visible, new revelations or information are what moves the cycles of news and essentially moving public opinion.

In this scenario, the story of Epstein does not go completely, but never becomes the type of crisis that causes lasting political damage to the Trump administration. This is scattering, not interruption.

As the Republican Party is preparing for interim elections in the next year, which are formed to be closely contested, even the modest dragging of their public approval – a deviation that prevents them from focusing on a more useful message about the campaign – there may be significant consequences for voting.

As Trump pointed to Tuesday, it is difficult to break the conspiracy theory. He attracted parallels with the murder of John F Kennedy of 1963 and his latest orders to release more government documents.

“You know it reminds me a little of the Kennedy situation,” he said. “We gave them everything over and over, more and more and no one is pleased.”

Trump will be more familiar with the recent conspiracy around former President Barack Obama’s birthplace. The White House released certificates for short and long-term forms showing that Obama was born on American soil, but the doubts, mostly Trump himself, were never satisfied.

The end, as they say, is an honest game.

If there is an indisputable power that Trump has shown in his 10 years in the national political spotlight, this is the ability to exceed any scandal and dispute that comes to his way. While Epstein’s history has a toxic combination of power, abuse, sex and influence, there is no indication that this will be different.

“He has done it before and will do it again” is a mantra that the White House, which is looking for the best scenario, may want to repeat. Without new revelations, the public will eventually get tired of this story – or it will be buried by a new scandal, conflict or media rage.

If so, Epstein’s saga will return to the corners of the Internet and political borders, joining the murder of Kennedy, the American Lunar Landing, and, yes, the Birth certificate of Obama as a focus of only a few obsessed.

It may not be justice – it may be too late for that – but it would not be an unknown end to modern American politics.