Agreed. Don't know what Trumps motives are here, doubt it is himself as a client or he wouldn't have talked so loudly about releasing them before, and frankly, it would have come out earlier, isn't any way they sat on it with the other crap they pulled.

But his bizarre behavior from the summer seems like amateur hour for someone who normally has his finger closely to the pulse. I can only guess that someone he is close to, or some congressmen he needs right now, was/were a client and Trump didn't know. Or that some unrelated deal/credible threat was made and burying Epstein was part of it.

I favor a ill conceived deal, but I have no idea what could have been offered to offset it, possible he underestimated interest in Epstein.