Now we are being told that Mr. Trump’s conspiracy-deflating about-face on the subject of Jeffrey Epstein — the financier and sexual predator whose suicide in jail and supposed client list Mr. Trump now dismisses as “pretty boring stuff” — presents a grave threat to his support.

Steve Bannon joined a growing chorus of MAGA influencers coalescing behind President Donald Trump in the wake of the Wall Street Journal report about a ribald birthday letter bearing Trump’s name that was sent to Jeffrey Epstein, telling CNN Friday that he believed the story had united a base that had been showing signs of fraying.

Bondi failed to remember her place in the world and Trump's default to personal gain over public good. She should have realized that her "findings" in the Epstein case would end up being whatever Trump wanted. And the safe course for her would be to tamp down prosecutorial expectations, not heighten them.