This deal will get the US nothing new, at the expense of burning down 80 years of relations with our strongest allies and trading partners and weakening the US with respect to China and Russia. Nonetheless, MAGA will applaud the deal as a triumph. The Trump family will get hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit gains.

I have zero details about the deal. But that’s how things work in the Trump White House.

Also, the Epstein files were, by law, supposed to have been released Dec. 19.