Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and MAGA
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Rep. Thomas Massie is gaining more Republican friends and allies as he pushes for releasing the Epstein files after having a falling with Donald Trump.
The Jeffrey Epstein morass surrounding President Donald Trump is deepening amid growing defiance by some Republicans and despite the administration’s most inflammatory attempt yet at distraction.
The attorney general reportedly told President Donald Trump in the spring he was named multiple times in the government's files on Jeffrey Epstein.
ANALYSIS: For days, Donald Trump couldn’t get his MAGA base to drop their anger over the Epstein files. However, as Justin Baragona writes, it appears that the Wall Street Journal’s bombshell report gives the right the perfect opportunity to unite in its shared hatred of the mainstream media.
Rachel Maddow shares NBC News reporting on a collection of Twitter chat bots programmed to say supportive things about Donald Trump, but struggling to reconcile Trump's connections to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and MAGA supporters' animosity for Epstein and his associates.
The account for Rasmussen Reports, a polling firm that typically favors Republicans, called the statement “great tradecraft,” pointing to how the memo was first reported by Axios before being officially posted. It said the release caused “a PR nightmare in public opinion because trust in gov is shattered.”
Trump himself has already been found liable for sexual assault of E. Jean Carroll. Then there was the ‘Stormy Daniels Does Donald’ sexcapaid. The President is not only well known for using a thick black marker, he’s actually had his free-hand marker outlines of the NYC skyline auctioned for charity.