'Trump is in denial': Ex-senator says president's own 'monster' eating him alive

In an attempt to explain why Donald Trump is not only letting the Jeffrey Epstein files controversy consume the news cycle but is also making things worse with his statements, one former lawmaker suggested he can't face reality.

On Wednesday, in the face of withering attacks from his MAGA base that he is betraying them by letting his Department of Justice sit on the Epstein files and claiming there is nothing of interest, Trump floated a file "hoax" conspiracy theory. Later in the day,...