Playbook: “Trump has ruminated about the Epstein fallout for weeks. ‘They’re going to accuse me of some funny business,’ he said recently in the Oval Office, according to a Republican close to the White House who personally heard the president make these comments. Trump again maintained his distance from Epstein’s criminal behavior, but lamented: ‘They’re going to fuck me anyways.’”
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