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William Shakespeare wrote about “the winter of our discontent” in Richard III. The line which follows that famous quotation suggests a grim winter morphed into a “glorious summer” and that “the clouds” are now “in the deep bosom of the ocean buried.”
Well, that “glorious summer” may have dissipated for House Republicans.
2025 is now the summer of discontent. The party is cleaved over the Epstein files.
Or, as the Bard might say, “To release or not to release. That is the question.”
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The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., seen on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Many Republicans want the Epstein issue to disappear. But there’s a cohort of conservative House Republicans – well tapped into the MAGA base – who are apoplectic that the Trump administration hasn’t coughed up