I suspect that the president found that the Epstein thing was about to hit the fan.
Stop and think what this is going to mean politically. This will bring on the destruction of the dims, Mueller, the FBI,m the DOJ.
A political upheaval.
And it hits the fan immediately ahead of Muller’s testimony before congress.
There will be questions Mueller did not anticipate when he agreed to appear.
The Epstein thing is about embarrassing(or worse) Trump. No one is going down least of all the Clintons.