Trump Gaslights His MAGA Base: Is This Supposed to be “Winning”?

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by Ambrose Kane, The Unz Review:

Trump recently expressed his disinterest in perusing the Jeffrey Epstein matter after the Justice Department on July 7th released a memo detailing how Epstein died at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (NYC) in 2019. Not only was foul play ruled out with Epstein committing suicide in his jail cell (rather than being murdered by someone else as most people probably think), but there was reportedly no blackmail client “list” used to incriminate those involved in any sex crimes on his island.

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This is precisely what Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, has publicly said adding that “no further disclosure” on Epstein-related material “would be appropriate or warranted.” Bondi’s announcement, of course, directly contradicted her public statements back in February when she said that the “list” was literally sitting on her desk: “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review,” she told ‘America Reports’ host John Roberts (FOX News). “That’s been a directive by President Trump.” And what about all those “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” binders that were given at the White House to the social media influencers just a few months prior? What was that all about if there was no client list to begin with?

Attempts to explain away this glaring contradiction have not been successful and has only managed to stir up more criticism from Trump’s own political base.

Trump feigns bewilderment over why Americans are still interested in the Epstein affair when his administration has been accomplishing so much good for the American people and when more pressing matters need to be addressed (e.g., his efforts at securing a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, his bombing of Iran, rebuilding the economy, the recent Texas floods, etc.). He has labeled the entire Epstein case as “sordid and boring” and has even gone as far as to accuse Obama, former FBI Director, James Comey, and the Biden administration of ‘making up’ the Epstein files!?

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On Truth Social, Trump went on tell his supporters not to “waste time and energy on Jeffrey Epstein” (July 12th) – and that’s precisely what several prominent conservative pundits have obediently done in urging their followers to ‘move on’ from the Epstein matter. Charlie Kirk on July 14th said that he was “done talking about Epstein for the time being” and that he would “trust” his “friends in the government to do what needs to be done.” Dinesh D’Souza said essentially the same thing stating that it’s “time to move on” and “it seems pretty clear we’re not gonna get more information out of the government.”

Aside from the fact that Trump himself declared during his 2024 campaign efforts that he would release the Epstein files, there are a plethora of good reasons to be concerned about the sexual crimes that Jeffrey Epstein committed against hundreds of underage girls, including the many important and influential persons who fell prey to what appeared to have been an obvious ‘honey pot’ scheme possibly orchestrated and funded by the Mossad. There is also the matter of justice and what kind of country has the U.S. morphed into by having allowed a widescale pedophile rape network to go unscathed. One also wonders why Epstein’s partner-in-crime, Ghislane Maxwell, is still in prison serving a 20-year sentence if no client “list” ever existed and if there was no evidence that sexual crimes against underage children occurred?

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