MAGA, Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein
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President's base is not being fooled by distractions this time, and MAGA crowd recognizes the peril he's in, writes
President Donald Trump signaled he could consider pardoning Jeffrey Epstein’s partner Ghislaine Maxwell, a move that would enrage his MAGA base. The president said he had not considered pardoning Maxwell,
Nearly six years after he died, Jeffrey Epstein is still at the center of controversy. Part of President Trump's political base is angry over the handling of the files from the investigation into Epstein's sex crimes and his death in a jail cell.
The Republican-led House of Representatives shut down early for its summer break to avoid Jeffrey Epstein motions.The Senate GOP has been in see-no-evil mode the past week over the controversy swirling around the seemingly vanished “client list” of the high-flying financier and convicted pedophile who once palled around with Donald Trump and Bill Clinton among many other power players.
Trump faces MAGA backlash over Epstein as calls for transparency grow and loyalists demand the files be released.
Adding yet another Sunshine State connection to the whole saga, the WSJ has hired former GOP Sen. GEORGE LEMIEUX, the previous CHARLIE CRIST chief of staff when he was governor, who now works at the Florida firm Gunster Yoakley & Stewart, per POLITICO’s Josh Gerstein.
According to the news network, in the wake of MAGA outrage following this week’s DOJ and FBI announcement that there was no evidence of the long-rumored list of clients once held by the deceased American financier, child sex offender and sex trafficker Epstein, Bongino had been considering his exit over tensions with Bondi.
MAGA Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary was shut down swiftly and repeatedly by CNN host Abby Phillip while absurdly arguing that Americans don’t care about the Jeffrey Epstein files. “Nobody gives a poop about this,” O’Leary insisted Monday night.
Here’s how Donald Trump’s position on Jeffrey Epstein has changed over the year, and how the fallout over the Epstein files poses a particular challenge for him.
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