Jeffrey Epstein, Trump and MAGA
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Police seized phone message pads from Epstein's Palm Beach mansion in 2005. Two messages were from Donald Trump.
Democrats are latching on to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. On Tuesday, they trolled Republicans in online posts and demanded records be released, reveling in a rare backlash roiling President Donald Trump's fiercely loyal base.
It came as Trump said the attorney general should release "whatever she thinks is credible" on the disgraced financier.
U.S. President Donald Trump's eldest son added, "Ask yourselves this question daily and the answer becomes very apparent!!"
In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida on two state felony charges, paid restitution to three dozen victims, and registered as a sex offender. A decade later, Epstein pleaded not guilty in New York to multiple charges, including sex trafficking.
Donald Trump dismissed renewed interest in the Jeffrey Epstein case, deeming it \"pretty boring stuff\" and expressing confusion over his supporters' fo
The Trump regime had previously promised to release all of the files, even holding a media event at the White House back in February where right-wing influencers received binders marked “Epstein Files: Phase 1,” implying there would be more to come. As it turned out, nothing in those binders was new information.
Right-wing Republicans have also criticized the president’s stances on Iran and Ukraine, hinting at a broader fraying of his political coalition.
Some of of Trump's allies on Capitol Hill have pushed the administration to release more information about the case as the president has downplayed it.
MAGA’s disgruntlement with President Donald Trump over his team’s dismissal of the Jeffrey Epstein affair is turning into a political crisis, and a top pollster is comparing the fallout to the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that hobbled former President Joe Biden.
President Donald Trump’s strategy has been to downplay the uproar over the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case as his supporters demand the Justice Department release much-hyped records in the investigation.