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At an Axios News Shapers event Wednesday, Sen. Thom Tillis said that the Trump administration should “release the damn” Jeffrey Epstein files as the best way to put the whole issue in the rearview. WHY IT MATTERS: The Justice Department’s handling of evidence in the case driven the most enduring conflict between Trump and his MAGA base of this term — and the fallout has has roiled Congress. “It makes no sense to me,” Tillis told Axios’ Stef Kight at an Axios News Shapers event Wednesday, referri