Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and MAGA
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President Donald Trump revealed that he spoke to FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino on Sunday, a call that comes amid infighting in the Trump administration over the handling of the Epstein files. At the end of last week,
Donald Trump's Truth Social post defending Pam Bondi has seen more than 36,000 replies so far, many from people unhappy with the president's remarks.
Trump defended Bondi in a social media post Saturday as leadership at the Justice Department and the FBI face turmoil over its handling of the Epstein probe. Trump praised Bondi for doing a "fantastic job" and urged his "boys" and "gals" to stop criticizing her.
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President Donald Trump’s adviser-turned-foe Elon Musk demanded that the Trump administration release the so-called Epstein client list related to the late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Trump’s base has been outraged for several days over dissatisfaction with Attorney General Pam Bondi,
CNN Political Commentators David Urban and Kristen Soltis Anderson, Democratic strategist Faiz Shakir, and Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Dingell join CNN’s Dana Bash to break down MAGA’s revolt over Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Trump's followers on Truth Social were not having it and accused the president of "gaslighting" and insisted his argument is "not holding water."
The Justice Department and FBI are struggling to contain the fallout from the decision to withhold records from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation. What do you think?
Historian Richard Hofstadter was a pioneer observer of what he called “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” which he described in a 1964 Harper’s Magazine analysis of the use of loose facts and pseudo-facts to build an alternative reality for political ends.