, anyone paying attention already knows Trump was connected with Epstein. He banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago and Trump cooperated in an earlier case against him.
There is certainly more going on here than ego-protection. His so-called “MAGA Cult” would have shielded him from any “hoax” about him in the documents, so why did he throw his base under the bus to (try) keeping this under wraps?