Bring On the MAGA Revolt
“Honestly, I have finished talking about Epstein for the moment,” said Kirk on his podcast a few days later. “I will trust my friends in the administration, I will trust my friends in the government to do what must be done, solve it, the ball in their hands.”
The faithful of Maga are furious not only about Epstein but also other broken promises, as Wired reported earlier this week. But the failed deployment of Epstein materials, said Trump advisers, dates back to February when the White House gave binders of conservative influencers full of materials which were for the most part already public information on the financial in disgrace and the charged sexual trafficker.
Even some of the crucial podcast bros that helped push Trump over in 2024 add the management of the Epstein case to their growing list of regrets. To express his dissatisfaction, Andrew Schulz, a podcaster and a popular actor with young men, shared a screenshot on Instagram of the explosive postponement Wired on the probable changes to the Epstein RAW prison band.
The more time passes, the more the Freakout oozes in front of the pure and hard of the traditional base of Maga.
Epstein’s toothpaste, says Trump’s first advisor, cannot be put back in the tube – which is particularly ironic, since Trump stored the best ranks of the federal police with Epstein Truers. And after Trump’s campaign in 2024 was based on Trump’s base in 2024 and the Maga plot was on his way to victory, the exaggerated staff who decided to prepare conservative influencers with binders may only have been the last error.
Even Trump seems to be short of what to do next. In what could mark a turning point in the President’s other way with his base, he seemed to call Magi World in a social article on Truth on Wednesday: “[The Democrats’] The new scam is what we will forever call hoax Jeffrey Epstein, and my former supporters joined this `bullshit ”, Hook, Line and Sinker,” wrote the president on his own social media site. ” They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never. “”
The White House did not make a request for comments, especially if the president thinks that anyone who doubts him on Epstein is no longer Maga.
There are many variables and unknown in Trump’s second term. But given the particular fervor and salience of this question among its most devoted supporters and a large part of the conservative ecosystem, this seems more and more a distinct time.
Call that Trump 2.0 Be and AE – before Epstein and the next revolt, and after.
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What do we read elsewhere
🔗 The president’s daughter-in-law organizes a weekly program on Fox News. Calling it “propaganda” is too nice: A large deep dive into the mechanics of Lara Trump’s Fox News emission, which I record every week. (The media is important)
🔗 How Fox News massaged an interview with Trump: Fox News has deleted key warning from Trump’s response on the declassification of Epstein files of an interview during the summer, and he has a whole new valence in the middle of the current Maga revolt. (SEMAFOR)
🔗 What is the popularity of Donald Trump? A notable conclusion here: 39% of Americans have no opinion on the management of the cryptocurrency by Trump, while 37% have no opinion with regard to the president and the AI. (Silver Bulletin)
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