ANALYSIS — President Donald Trump recently used the term “de-escalate,” but on a number of hot-button issues, all he and his team have done in recent days is the opposite.
From videos showing ongoing aggressive actions by federal immigration enforcement agents, to Trump’s tough talk on nationalizing elections in the face of some GOP pushback, to his defiance about being prominently featured in the Jeffrey Epstein files, Trump 2.0 has continued to mash the gas pedal.
Despite one media outlet’s search that discovered more than 5,300 Epstein files that mention Trump, first lady Melania Trump, his Mar-a-Lago estate and other related phrases, Trump on Tuesday remained dismissive and denied wrongdoing, saying flatly that “we have other things to do because that whole thing has turned out … nothing on me.”
