Best 'bad option' for Trump on Epstein requires 'falling on swords': expert

The Jeffrey Epstein firestorm that is engulfing Donald Trump's White House has no clean ending for the president as more details trickle out.

That is according to Politico's legal analyst Ankush Khardori, who wrote on Friday morning that the president and his inner circle have six possible paths before them — and only one has a chance of taking pressure off the president, even if it doesn't make the scandal go away.

According to the analyst, each day evidence of Trump's former friendship with the pedophile dribbles up, making the crisis "messier" and, therefore, harder to clean up.

Instead of letting Congress have the Epstein files, creating a Blue Ribbon commission to open a new investigation, firing key appointees like Attorney General Pam Bondi or FBI Director Kash Patel, or ordering all information to be released, Khardori suggested the best option for Trump's survival is for key members of his Cabinet to "fall on their swords."

As he wrote, "The best of the bad options is for the most senior law enforcement officials — Bondi, Patel or both — to give a press conference in which they provide a credible and confidently delivered readout of the government’s investigative work and answer all of the questions posed by the media. Stay for as many hours as it takes."

According to the column, that would likely force them to own up to their own stumbles, equivocations and mistakes — thereby damaging their careers and future in the administration beyond repair.

"They would need to describe with greater precision what is in the government’s possession and what it does and doesn’t reveal about the broader conspiracies alleged by skeptics. They would need to firmly and definitively explain that the conspiracy theories that they cultivated are wrong," he advised.

"The overriding problem with this proposal, apart from Bondi and Patel’s willingness to do this, is that the public can no longer trust them on this subject. They have burned their credibility on the issue across the political spectrum, and people will be justifiably skeptical about whether they are receiving a complete and accurate account."

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