The Trump administration has crashed out over the newly released Jeffrey Epstein files — and can no longer keep its stories straight, according to reports Monday.
The Bulwark's Editor at Large William Kristol described why materials related to the deceased pedophile have sent the White House and President Donald Trump's Department of Justice spinning.
"It’s hard for the mooks to remember which lie they’re supposed to tell," he wrote.
"We’re in the midst of a coverup. A modified coverup, perhaps, but a coverup nonetheless."
Kristol, who compared the Trump administration to the Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal, revealed why Americans need to entirely rethink the Trump version of the current DOJ.
"One implication of this is that we need to shed all our old, post-Watergate assumptions about the Department of Justice," Kristol wrote. "Trump’s 'Department of Justice' is Trump’s defense team. There should be no presumption they’re acting in good faith. One has to think of them as one thought of a Soviet bloc 'Department of Justice'—as dedicated to pro-regime propaganda, not justice or the truth."
And despite the administration's attempts to conceal information, it's now "unraveled far more than most thought possible several months ago."
"With regards to the Epstein files, it certainly seems that there are things that Trump and his lieutenants don’t want Congress and the public to know," Kristol added. "Presumably these are things that, to put it gently, don’t reflect well on Trump. Since he has been pretty successful in his ability to survive embarrassing revelations, it’s a reasonable assumption these secrets really don’t reflect well on him."