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Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance argued Wednesday that President Donald Trump “may not outlast” his administration’s saga with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“Given everything we know about Donald Trump, everything he himself has said about girls and women, it is difficult to imagine what innocent behavior he would have engaged in during the ‘hours’ he spent with an abuse victim at the crime scene: Epstein’s home, where sexual abuse was rampant,” she wrote.

As the House prepares to vote next week on the release of files linked to Epstein, Vance emphasized that the White House is “doing everything we can to prevent it” despite the president’s promise to release the files during the election campaign.

“Transparency means releasing the files. Not conducting interviews with someone who wants a pardon or selectively releasing only the documents that cause them the least harm,” Vance wrote, referring to Maxwell’s interview with the Justice Department and the documents that Republicans have so far abandoned.

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He went on to question whether Trump’s “McCarthy moment” is “finally coming,” referring to Sen. Joseph McCarthy, whose “red scare tactics held the country hostage and came close to destroying the First Amendment.”

McCarthy, in hearings with the U.S. military in the mid-1950s, was confronted by the U.S. military’s top lawyer, Joseph N. Welch, who asked him, “Do you have no decency?” in comments that dealt a notable blow to the senator.

“That moment burst McCarthy’s bubble. We were finally able to get close,” Vance wrote.

“Trump has survived other moments like this, where he turned his blatant racism and misogyny into bonus points for his base. But he may not survive the Epstein files controversy.”