President Trump once joked famous that he could shoot a man on 5th Avenue and his strongest supporters would stay with him. For almost a decade this seemed true, but today the president may be the exception, in the pathogenic form of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
It appears that Epstein is an important test for Trump in the eyes of his Maga Warriors. They want real answers from this administration, not with the dumps of the document and rejecting comments from the president himself, as we saw this week.
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Now we have FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who apparently threatens to resign about the debacle, as an attorney -general Pam Bondi does not go first and a bewildered Maga -Basis who feels it is insulted and lied by his government, again.
Certainly, Epstein was a terrible person who had been hunting for decades on poor minor girls, according to testimony of the Ghislane Maxwell process (which I have treated in the courthouse), as well as a wealth of other evidence. But for most Americans, his crimes and suspect are currently just a curiosity.
A split image of Jeffrey Epstein (left) and attorney general Pam Bondi (right).
It is much, much more for hard-core Maga. For them it is nothing less than a test to determine whether the swamp that has lied against our faces for decades still has control.
This week Steve Bannon said that the only way the Epstein story disappears is like “the 5 to 10 to 15 percent of the Trump movement, the Pepes and Hardcores”, finally say: “I had had enough of it.” He added that the basic question is: “Who runs the country?”
Similarly, at the TPUSA convention in Florida this weekend, which is led by Trump Ally Charlie Kirk and such a pure distillation of the core Maga movement is as exists, my sources tell me that Epstein is very the top subject of care.
But why did this curious case of this notorious crawl and its private island be a synecdoche for all government in the spirit of Maga? In other words, how has Epstein become the symbol of deep government corruption?
Firstly, the idea that Epstein was allowed to kill in a federal prison always has the gullibility. From the lack of video to conflicting medical exams, there have been legitimate questions about how a man who reportedly has harmful information about powerful people and ties with the intelligence community could appear in the federal detention. While officials assured the nation that there was nothing to see, Maga saw. “Epstein Don’t Mill Self” not only became a meme and a mantra, but a statement that we have been gas lit by our government.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is said to be considering resignation about the fiasco. (Fox & Friends)
Bongino said in recent weeks, together with FBI director Kash Patel, that a video from prison is positive that this was suicide, but it turned out that there was a missing minute of images and the video was possible.
This was after Bondi in the White House in the Spring everything but a group of influencers achieved binders that claimed to share new Bombshell information that turned out to be just as exciting as a list of grandma baking recipes.
Moreover, we have President Trump himself, visibly irritated in the White House, this week when he was asked to Epstein: “Are you still talking about this guy … This crawl?” Asked Trump. Well, Mr. President, they are.
All in all, the treatment by the administration of the Epstein case has been about as transparent as a brick wall, one that seems to crumble.
In the past, Trump has expressed his concern about the fact that innocent people are mentioned in Epstein documents, as happened with lawyer Alan Dershowitz and others, and according to Elon Musk both Trump and Bannon appear in this proof, although Musk does not provide proof of this.
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This can be a reasonable concern, but after decades of flagrant lies and stuck persecutions from Epstein, Trump’s hardcore supporters want more than guarantees. They want to see the documents. They want to see everything.
And this is a central part of the attraction of Trump, his promise to open the hood and to uncover the broken, deep government motor. But promises are not enough. Where are the results? For example, when do we go to Fort Knox as promised?
A breathtaking feature of the second Trump term has been extreme transparency. The president takes questions and answers with frankness almost daily. Except, it seems, when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein.
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For a quarter of a century, the Epstein case has been a flammable cocktail of power, greed, private islands and sexual abuse. It has ushered both careful research and wild conspiracy theories, and the only way to separate the two is with full sunlight on the evidence.
For President Trump, this is perhaps the first time that he risks the loyalty of his longest, strong supporters and for a populist political movement that is pure poison.
The time to release everything is now, the future of Maga can depend on it.
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