It is just political theater, but so was this .....
Convicted sex trafficker was a ‘good salesman’, says former president
www.telegraph.co.uk
^^^ This article is from September 3, 2024, and it was a frequent promise that Donald Trump made throughout the 2024 Presidential Election Campaign.
A defense to this might go something like, "
Donald Trump thought that there was a client list, but he was wrong. It was an honest mistake."
Fine, but it is still Trump's fault for making such a promise, without being certain that there was a client list to publicly release.
I'm sure that Trump assumed that even if there wasn't a client list, his base would forget about it, as soon as he told them that it was time to move on from it. This was more important to his followers than he realized, and Democrats are trying to score some points from that. That's how politics goes in 2025 .... and this is not unfair to Trump. He hyped the existence of a client list, before he had seen such a thing.