President Donald Trump’s strategy has been to downplay the uproar over the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case as his supporters demand the Justice Department release much-hyped records in the invest

The fallout of the Epstein case is testing the power the president holds over his most loyal followers, many of whom have broken into open revolt against him.

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.