MAGA influencer cope is now Congressional strategy

Regarding Donald Trump’s defense of the worst accusations, the influencer-industrial complex of Maga, whether by loyalty or self-service, Whatbouticism, Arguing that the Democrats are just as guilty as Trump, or (ideally) worse. This principle was well held very well with the current Jeffrey Epstein Saga, and as the anger of their audience against the Trump Skyrocket administration, the world of influence of Maga tries a new accessory: blame the blame Democrats, Not Trump, for keeping the “Epstein files” under lock and key.

Trump, the person who could order the release of said documents, has spent the last weeks trying to stifle the drama from a few different angles, ultimately only doing the flames he tried to relax Epstein. He tried to reject him at a meeting of the cabinet (“Do you still talk about Jeffrey Epstein?”), By minimizing him on Truth Social (“Let’s not waste time and energy on Jeffrey Epstein, someone who does not care”, and criticizing a journalist to ask questions about Epstein (“still don’t talk about this guy?”).

But there is no indication that the maga-influence complex will never stop talking about Epstein, or that their audience will never let go. But during last week, the class of influencers, then the GOP, began to maneuver Trump’s spin in a more acceptable point of discussion, inspired by a recent Wall Street Journal Bombshell reports that the Ministry of Justice had told Trump in May that his name was in the pile of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. “Of course, there will be Epstein mentions, who was a member of Mar-A-Lago until Trump launched him” over ten years ago, “said Alex Jones, the Infowars The host who had spent the last days raging on Epstein files. But when he had called to the head of anyone in the administration for not having delivered, it was much easier to go around the wagon around Trump when a consumer publication linked him to bad behavior.

Laura Loomer, another eminent influencer who had criticized the administration for her disappointing response, also took the opportunity to try to go home, wondering where Exactly Trump’s name appeared in the files, while icing Trump. “Do they try to say that a file is someone’s name in a address book?” She asked for rhetorically politico playbook on Thursday, adding that she also had a large address book. “Some of these people in my address book have committed crimes. Does that mean that I am involved in their crimes? President Trump is not a pedophile. And I can’t wait to see him pursue each journalist and publication that tries to imply that it is one.”

In the days and weeks following the Trump administration published their brief memo on Epstein files, the world of influencer Maga – in particular, those who built their careers “simply asking questions” on Epstein while mobilizing in Trump – faced with a difficult choice: either respond to the demand of their audience with the White House.

Some have chosen their audience, the games of chance that their following are faithful beyond Trump, and that their influence does not depend on their access to the White House. (Tucker Carlson, for example, published an episode of two hours which was entirely focused on the plots of Epstein – A week after having suggested that Epstein was a Mossad agent.) Others completely returned to Trump, like the influence of Catturd, an Epstein Truther on the Pymyclitis that started to criticize the podcast. (In 2024, the American prosecutors accused two RT employees for having illegally sent money to spread the propaganda of the Kremlin, alleging that they had placed $ 10 million in a media company based in Tennessee whose description corresponded to Tenet Media, who worked with Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, and others.) “Never abandon the cashier” and spent the weekly week at the Obs al memes of the press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

But for everyone, it was difficult to have them in both directions. Loomer’s attempt to blame the Attorney General Pam Bondi, for example, failed when Trump refused to dismiss Bondi, while the influencers who tried to convince their audience to pass to different subjects have seen their audience the revolt (in particular if these influencers, such as Benny Johnson, cited their conversations with government officials as a sufficient reason).

And before rejecting it as Sturm-And-Drang on the Internet, the same dynamic can be considered at Congress, where the Republicans do their best to satisfy the base while soothing the president-a task made difficult because their normal and daily constituents also have deep suspicions throughout the Epstein Matter. A Reuters / Ipsos survey published last week revealed that the vast majority of voters – including the majority of Republicans – believe that the government hides information on the infamous “customer list”. And revealing, only 35% of Republicans thought that the Trump administration managed it well. (30% said Trump was not, and 35% were not sure.)

On Wednesday, a chamber surveillance subcommittee voted to assign the Ministry of Justice for Epstein files, with a majority made up of five Democrats and three Republicans. The two Republicans who opposed the assignment ended up repressing other requests for communications linked to Epstein of Biden and Doj officials. According to ABC News, the “civil servants” understood the Democratic subjects of Maga’s most sustainable conspiracy theories: “Bill and Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Merrick Garland, Robert Mueller, William Barr, Jeff Sessions and Alberto Gonzales.”

In other words, nobody seems to be able to run with Trump’s assessment that Epstein is “someone who does not care.” Unable to repress the conviction that there is a conspiracy in progress, the only thing to do is to try to involve the Democrats. Even President Mike Johnson, who suddenly called a five -week recreation last Thursday to prevent his democratic counterparts from voting to release Epstein files, relied on a potential plot. “One of our concerns is, of course, that it was held in the hands of the leaders of the Doj under the last administration, the Biden-Harris administration,” he told a newsmax journalist on Wednesday. “And we all know how twisted and corrupt, how they engaged in the legislation against President Trump were twisted. Regarding right -wing discussion points based on sordid and not proven allegations, it is best to start winning early – and synchronizing with the president.