Trump Continues to Throw Gasoline on the Epstein Bonfire by Attacking His Own Supporters in MAGA
President Donald Trump poured more gasoline on the Epstein bonfire today, propelling the story into Headline News again, with a post to his Truth Social platform, where he referred to the whole matter as a “hoax” started by the Democrats.
Notice how he calls his supporters who want the Epstein files released as “PAST supporters”. He has already pressured his DOJ and FBI leaders to get on board with this new position, that the Epstein files are “a hoax”.
But the American public is not buying it, as Americans on both the Left and the Right are now opposing Trump on this issue.
This has put a lot of pressure on GOP Congress members in the House, who have to be re-elected every two years and face mid-term elections next year.
Trump’s arch enemy in the House, and one of the only GOP Congressmen who does not take support from AIPAC, the Jewish lobby group, is Thomas Massie, who today started a campaign to get enough votes in the GOP to side with Democrats and demand that the DOJ release the “Epstein files.”
It is still hard to know if this is 100% scripted theatrics at this point, designed to create chaos within the GOP, or if Susie Wiles and Trump vastly underestimated the backlash that was going to result from all this.
Given Trump’s well-known arrogant behavior, I am leaning towards the second choice. He seems to be drunk on his new power under a second term, and probably genuinely believes that he can do no wrong, and that his supporters will just follow and support anything and everything he wants.
As this situation continues to escalate, mostly because Trump will not leave it alone and move on, what are Trump’s options now as he is rapidly losing his support base over this?
He could try to declare that anyone who accuses his administration of covering up Epstein incriminating evidence as being “antisemitic”, and maybe even be subject to deportation to one of their gulags that are rapidly increasing around the world.
This is clearly a defining moment in Trump’s second term, and ironically, it could actually unite the country against him.