Regime sources tell the Atlantic that convicted felon President Trump commanded his aides to boot reporters out of the room during the televised events at the White House since Wednesday morning after the House Oversight Dems dropped those damning Jeffrey Epstein emails. Normally not shy from bickering with the press, the fat bastard closed off access to avoid addressing the emails.

Instead the Orange God Emperor chose to rant privately to outside allies in phone calls, raging at the Democrats and media for perpetuating the shitshow, vowing to turn the pressure up on Republican Senators to vote no on forcing the Justice Department to release all the files. Just two days ago this site was operating under the assumption that the Senate wouldn’t even take it up but now CNN’s reporting suggests that many in the House are more than a little bullish on getting past the 2/3rds threshold in the chamber. That doesn’t legally obligate Senate Majority Leader John Thune to bring it to the floor any more than a simple House majority would but it’s obvious that politically a 2/3rds veto-proof margin would make much less defensible to mothball than a 225-ish yes vote.

All of which led one of these Trump allies – who sat through the lengthy phone venting session hearing Donald bitch and moan about it still being a story but nothing about why he’s so opposed to transparency – to tell Donald to come up with a different strategy as he’s “not acting like someone who has nothing to hide.” In fact no one in the Orange Overlord’s court of supplicants seems to know what exactly was the extent of his friendship with the dead sex trafficker.