"It's hard not to chuckle at the mess the Trump administration has made for itself" over Jeffrey Epstein, said Jonah Goldberg in the Los Angeles Times. For years, the president and his allies stoked conspiracy theories about the disgraced financier,

They have gone absolutely CRAZY,” Trump wrote, comparing the renewed attention on Epstein files to past investigations. He suggested the push for transparency surrounding Epstein’s connections is politically motivated and warned against harming “people who are innocent.