“Three weeks ago, White House officials were battling a frenzy from President Donald Trump’s supporters over the Jeffrey Epstein case. But the flurry of criticisms from within the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement have quieted, and Trump officials say they are plotting steps to try to shape the public narrative to their advantage,” the Washington Post reports.

“The president’s advisers are not under any impression that the storm has entirely passed: The most recent polling shows the public largely disapproving of Trump’s handling of the Epstein case.”

Said a senior White House official: “I wouldn’t say it’s blown over. It’s one of those things where, with a certain segment of the base, a very small segment of the base, it’s never going to die down, no matter what.”

“The genius of Trump is that he has internalized social media and how it works. He knows that saying something is no different than doing something, that it’s just one damn thing after another and nothing matters. Trump realized you don’t have to do things. You just need to say things and then it’s all wrapped in one big burrito of dream and fantasy.”

— Israeli writer Etgar Keret, quoted by the New Yorker.

“President Trump wants to move on from his administration’s fiasco over the Jeffrey Epstein files, but he keeps hampering that effort by opening his mouth,” CNN reports.

“The most recent instance has to do with precisely why the two men had a falling out about two decades ago.”

“Trump acknowledged on Tuesday that the employees who he said Monday that Epstein poached from him, triggering their breakup, were young women who worked in the spa at his Mar-a-Lago club.”

William Kristol: “Some of his staff must be worrying that the president doth talk about Epstein too much. To which all I have to say is this: Mr. President, don’t listen to them. Keep on talking!”