Donald Trump He had angered part of his faithful base with decisions such as bombing Iran or giving military help to Ukraine (although he actually sells weapons to Europe). Nothing, however, is comparable to the rebellion against the president that is living in the Maga Movement for the ‘Epstein Case’. It is a crisis that the president is trying to stop, every time with more anger but without any success for the moment, and in which the strategy of his entire political career of encourage conspiracy theories He has turned against him, and with unusual hardness.
The crisis originated ten days ago, when its own government, after years in which Trumpism figures and ultra -right agreed conspiracy theories, ruled that the Death in jail in 2019 by Jeffrey Epstein, the sexual financial and predatorit had really been a suicide. FBI memoranda and the Department of Justice also establish that There was no “list” of customers of the exploitation plot of girls and young people.
Those conclusions of the agency that directs Kash Patelthat once fed the conspiracy theories but now says that “they have never been true”, and of justice, where the fiscal general Pam Bondi promised total transparency and in February came to say that he had the Alleged list “on your office table”they were absolutely unsatisfactory for those who believe that The “Deep State” and the elites hide the truth of the ‘Epstein Case’.
Last week, when he began to see the storm, Trump aggressively reacted to the defensive, but THE TEMPORARY DOES NOT AMAINA. The weekend began to ask their followers to leave the issue alone and believe Patel and Bondi. “I don’t like what is happening“He wrote. And this Tuesday and Wednesday, while repeatedly defended the work in the case of the Attorney General, He has hardened the attack on his own bases.
Attacks and insults to their own bases
In statements in the Oval Office before the press and before in a message in Truth Trump he has insisted on the idea that doubts about the Epstein case are another “Estafa” of the Democratssomething that already began to do on Saturday, blaming Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to former FBI director James Comment and the administration of Joe Biden, although Epstein’s death occurred during his first presidency. It has also passed the insult of the Republicans who demand more information and has said that these conservatives “They have chopped the hook and have swallowed at all this shit. ”
In their statements and messages Trump has also denied them as “Alfeñiques “and” foolish “, He has accused them of “not talking about our incredible and unprecedented success” and has come to write: “I don’t want your support anymore.”
The day before had suggested, as it did last week, that the case has no interest. “Is Sordid but boring And I don’t understand why he continues. I think that Only bad people, including false news, would like this to continue”, He said in statements to the media, in which he also reiterated another message that he has made habitual; which Bondi must make public what you consider to be “credible.”
Tensions in the party and in the bases
One of Trump’s problems with this case is that the revolt extends in an unusual way, creating critical voices in places where in his first six months of this second presidency there were only compliments and echo his words. And for example the President of the Lower House, Mike Johnson, This Tuesday he said in a conservative podcast that “We should get everything there and let people decide. ”
Congresswoman Ultra Marjorie Tylor Greene He said that “People are not willing to accept the 180 degree turn regarding everything that had been said“And in statements to ‘The New York Times’ he said:” It’s a stomach punch When normal people go to jail all the time when they bundled it and do something wrong and always stop The rich and powerful elites escape”.
Another emblematic congressman of Trumpism, Nancy Mace, explained to the newspaper that in Congress the phones with calls of calls do not stop sounding outraged voters who do not believe the official version And they want more data. Mace supports the idea of name a special prosecutor to investigate whether tests were destroyed and who could participate in the traffic of minors and young people and said that “it would be better for the country if the Department of Justice can be more transparent on this subject ”.
Opening for Democrats
Democrats, while trying to take advantage. It is not clear that this issue, in the long term, is going to pass political invoice to Trump, but for now he is showing a weakness of weakness In the president, something weird in this mandate, and they are taking advantage of it.
The Democratic leader in the lower house, Hakeem Jeffries, has said that “Americans deserve to know the truth”There are attacks in public messages and social networks, and for example the National Democratic Committee last week launched an account with an X Bot that every day publishes:“ Has Trump taken the Epstein archives? No. ”A similar message has also been read in the account of Elon Muskthat in its sound public rupture with the president came to write (and then delete) that Trump appeared in the “list”.
Democrats are also trying to get the Congress of steps to declassify documents. They have managed to add several votes of Republicans in initiatives that have not been successful but Rue Khana has allied with Republican Thomas Massie to present legislation that would allow to publish all the non -classified material of the case while protecting the identity of the victims.
According to internal surveys that democrats handle and have seen ‘politico’ the 61% of Republicans (and 70% of voters in general), They believe that the authorities are keeping informationn on powerful personalities connected to Epstein. A third of Trump voters believe that the supposed “list” remains “secret” to “protect powerful people like Trump.” Two thirds of voters in that survey say that the case is important because it is about “government transparency and make powerful people give up.” 58% believe probable or definitive that Trump could be involved in cover -up.
Between scolding and interrogating
The tension in the administration is palpable, and not only because of Trump’s anger. In recent days, news of a tense has leaked Shouting between Bondi and Dan Bogninothe number 2 of the FBI, which with Patel was one of the promoters of conspiracy theories and that had promised not to stop until the whole truth was known.
To them already other government personalities and Trumpism, such as the vice president JD Vance or President Donald Jr.they are pursued past messages in which they accused and insulted those who did not ask questions about Epstein’s case. And today the questions revive strongly.
Those who ask if the financial worked for some foreign intelligence service (he Mosad Israelí is the one that is mentioned the most). And those who doubt the official version of his death do. Bondi, who in February tried an advertising maneuver inviting the White House to Conservative influencers To give them alleged information about the case (which was a fiasco), he tried to justify last week that a minute is missing in the prison video of the night of suicide saying that it can demonstrate that it is an absence that is recorded in the recordings every night.
The magazine ‘Wired‘However, he published Tuesday after a metadata analysis that have been cut almost three minutes (specifically two minutes and 53 seconds) in the images that the FBI has facilitated. The cut begins, precisely, in what is already called the “missing minute.”
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