Only 6 percent of Americans are satisfied with the Trump administration’s release of Jeffrey Epstein files—a number so dismal it barely registers as a rounding error.

A new CNN poll paints a brutal picture for a White House that campaigned on transparency about the convicted sex offender’s connections to the powerful: nearly half of Americans are actively dissatisfied with how much information has been made public, and a full two-thirds believe the government is intentionally withholding documents it should have released.

WHAT’S GOING ON: The poll lands less than a month after a Dec. 19 deadline Congress set for the Justice Department to release all Epstein-related files.

How’s that going? The DOJ admits it has released less than 1 percent of the materials. One percent. They’ve brought on 80 additional attorneys to help review documents, which sounds impressive until you remember the deadline already passed.

The suspicion runs deep across party lines. Eighty-eight percent of Democrats say the government is intentionally holding back information. So do 72 percent of independents. And 42 percent of Republicans—Trump’s own base—agree their guy is hiding something.

BUT BUT BUT: Trump would really prefer everyone just stop talking about this. “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy’s been talked about for years,” he snapped at a reporter in July. “Are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable. Do you want to waste the time?”

Classic deflection from a man who was photographed with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago in 2000, and whose attorney general, Pam Bondi, infuriated MAGA supporters by announcing last summer that no “client list” existed and no further files would be released.

OF COURSE: Republicans are doing what Republicans do—falling in line. The share who say the file release doesn’t matter or they haven’t heard enough to weigh in jumped from 56 percent to 67 percent. Those who are actually dissatisfied dropped from 40 percent to just 21 percent. The base is learning to stop asking questions.

Democrats, meanwhile, moved the opposite direction. Seventy-one percent now describe themselves as dissatisfied, up from 56 percent in July.

WHY IT MATTERS: Trump initially called the Epstein files a Democratic “hoax” and urged Republicans to vote against the disclosure bill. Then he changed course—presumably when he realized his base actually wanted transparency on this one. But the transparency never came. And with midterms looming, the gap between what Trump promised and what he’s delivered is becoming impossible to spin away.

The survey underscores a growing disconnect between official assurances and public confidence. Only 16 percent of Americans believe officials are making any effort to disclose everything possible. Sixteen percent. That’s not skepticism—that’s a crisis of legitimacy.