IT’S HARD TO imagine a worse moment for Donald Trump to be caught in the Epstein dragnet than at the tail end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, with food benefits rattled, “affordability” on everyone’s minds, and his own voters starting to wonder if the guy in the red tie is actually on their side.
On the same day Trump finally signed a bill to reopen the government after 43 days of chaos, a coalition of House Democrats and Republicans dropped a tranche of Jeffrey Epstein emails that punches holes straight through the president’s carefully curated story about a distant, long-ago acquaintance, with Epstein alleging Trump “knew about the girls” and “spent hours at my house” with one of the victims.
While the messages don’t show criminal conduct by Trump, they landed at a moment when Americans are already furious with his handling of Epstein’s files, the shutdown, and the basic question of whether their government works for the powerful or for everyone else. Together, they form a pincer around a president who keeps promising transparency and law and order, then flinching the second those promises threaten him personally.
Idk, there will be a lot of holdouts that will quietly change their opinions about all this overnight and continue supporting him.
I have a MAGA relative that was very much in the camp of Epstein leading a pedo cabal (of Democrats!) and that he didn’t kill himself (Democrats/Soros did it!!!). Then, as more evidence came out, they got quiet for a while. Then, just a few days ago, I see them now calling all this “The Epstein Hoax.”
They will justify and rationalize ANYTHING for Trump.
I’d kind of imagine that he’s not developing these ideas on his own, that rather some media that he’s consuming is providing him with them.
Thats a more scary thought. It would imply when he finally kicks it. We’ll soon have a new one.
Yes that’s spot on. They get their marching orders from Fox News, various right wing YouTubers, and their other MAGA friends.