Jeffrey Epstein, MAGA and Trump
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For a president known for punching back at critics, his move to release more Epstein records is a notable instance of bowing to their demands.
But Rothschild said most of the people in MAGA world are simply itching for more information – if it indeed exists – about the financier's connections with Bill Clinton and other Democrats and Trump opponents. Epstein cultivated powerful people from both major US political parties.
Some of Epstein’s victims feel the work they’ve done to get justice is being undone by the Trump administration’s handling of the case.
Lawmakers from the left are putting pressure on what has become a sensitive spot for Trump with his growingly frustrated base.
MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson said President Trump is making a huge political blunder by calling the Jeffrey Epstein scandal a "hoax." "Nobody had ever heard of Bill Clinton on a predator island before Donald Trump brought it up,
MAGA-friendly TV channel Newsmax is throwing shade at Fox News for tiptoeing around the controversy surrounding President Donald Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Anchor Rob Schmitt suggested that Fox News hosts are “terrified” to cover MAGA’s uproar over the Trump administration’s decision not to release any more information on the late convicted sex offender.
President Donald Trump and his administration are doing everything they can to make MAGA forget about Jeffrey Epstein. They are failing.
For years, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies benefited from conspiracy theories that fueled the conservative MAGA movement and targeted his political enemies.