‘A huge deal’: Why Trump’s MAGA base rejects his Epstein case explanation
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President Trump has held his MAGA coalition together for a decade. But many supporters say his refusal to release information on the Jeffrey Epstein case means he’s acting more like the deep state they want to tear down.
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MAGA’s already enraged that Trump has pulled an about-face on the Epstein files. Imagine their rage if they come out and a certain president not named Clinton is in them.
This week, the Justice Department and the FBI released a joint memo in which they concluded that Epstein had killed himself while in custody on sex trafficking charges in 2019 and that the disgraced
In the days since the Trump administration released a memo on Jeffrey Epstein directly at odds with conspiracy theories pushed by the president and some of his top lieutenants, Donald Trump’s movement and most ardent supporters are in revolt.
Conservatives furious at the Trump administration’s announcement that it will not release any more information surrounding disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are warning it will cost Republicans in the midterms.
Until Saturday, there were two possible explanations for the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case: misguided political moves, or a cover-up. Then, President Trump added a third.
NEW YORK — As his supporters erupt over the Justice Department’s failure to release much-hyped records in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking investigation, President Donald Trump’s strategy has been to
Trump's claim that the storied Epstein files never existed threatens to burn his presidency to the ground, causing a crisis of faith within his MAGA coalition.
In a post to Truth Social on Wednesday morning, Trump railed against Democrats, and some of his own supporters, calling the furor over the Epstein case a "hoax."
President Donald Trump again dismissed criticism of the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, saying he does not understand the continued interest and describing the matter as “pretty boring stuff.
