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Analysis - Donald Trump was forced to finally give in to pressure to release the Epstein files last month because the issue, on a politically pragmatic level, was becoming a major distraction in the news cycle, and causing white hot anger in his MAGA base.
It's not clear that the release of a first tranche of documents, on Saturday, will do anything to ease those pressures, particularly as this partial release fails to meet the legal obligation on the much-politicised Department of Justice to release everything by December 19.
The first tranche of thousands of documents and images did not contain any revelations of note, but at time of writing, more batches were continuing to be uploaded.
The thousands of photos - everything from the ones featuring famous people to photos of what appear to be boxes of evidenc
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