Donald Trump very rarely loses control of his own story. But the Jeffrey Epstein saga is beyond his powers to quell.

The president has come up with a new conspiracy theory about the so-called Epstein Files, which is a bit like watching a snake eat its own tail.

But no issue has exposed the underlying fault lines in the MAGA tent quite like the so-called Epstein files. The furor has centered on a new government review of the evidence surrounding the disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein,