"The lady doth protest too much, methinks. "
President Trump sure is acting like a man who’s got something to hide.
As much as Trump is DESPERATE for all of us – the media, the left, and mostly HIS OWN FANS – to drop the Epstein conspiracy theory, he sure keeps drawing more and more attention to it with his deranged, unhinged, over-the-top responses and posts of late.
The latest one, a screaming, psycho, upchuck of anger, throws the kitchen sink at this festering problem that isn’t going away.
In it, he rages at the Democrats for creating the Epstein “hoax,” a conspiracy theory the far right is actually behind and has been promoting for years since the convicted sexual offender and pedophile was found dead in his prison cell.
“The Radical Left Democrats have hit pay dirt, again!” he says, insisting Trump supporters have bought into the Epstein “SCAM” “hook, line and sinker.” Again, this conspiracy was spread by Fox News personalities, rightwing podcasters and people INSIDE HIS OWN ADMINISTRATION, like FBI heads Kash Patel and Dan Bongino. His own AG Pam Bondi told us all she’d seen the client list, and videos of child abuse and child porn.
But he’s so desperate to bury this thing, he’s now turning on his own supporters, calling anyone who is still asking questions about Epstein his “PAST supporters,” and he says “Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore!”
You can read the whole thing below:
Then, in a press conference, a reporter asked him about “past supporters,” and Trump said, “I’ve lost a lot of faith in certain people, yeah. I’ve lost. Because they got duped by the Democrats.”
In a way, you have to admire the total bullshit he’s spewing, trying to pin this on Democrats, likening the Epstein conspiracy to the Steele Dossier and Hunter Biden’s laptop, just outright lying about how this thing all started and blew up.
But he also looks like someone who’s probably definitely implicated in whatever files the DOJ does have. And now he’s conditioning the environment for a potential leak or news dump (which I hear may be coming).
When and if his relationship with Epstein or whatever tawdry details come out he’ll just say this is just like the “Russia hoax,” yet another invention by the Dems to destroy the great and powerful Trump. And plenty of Trump fans will believe him and go along with that.
But where do the others go? Folks like Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, Benny Johnson, Tucker Carlson – MAGA influencers who aren’t following Trump’s edict to be quiet and drop it…what do they do about Trump’s stonewalling?
And what WILL they do when and if they find out Trump is in it? Will they actually care? I doubt it.
But Trump’s turn on his own supporters is an historically bad political strategy. No one would advise a political figure to slam their own supporters and actually ENCOURAGE them to leave the fold.
His fanbase isn’t like others though…for them, nothing – I mean NOTHING – tends to be disqualifying. Not a sexual assault adjudication, not a fraud conviction, not an insurrection. Nothing. It’s hard to believe Epstein will be the thing that does it.
But a new poll certainly doesn’t bode well for him. A YouGov/TheEconomist poll asked respondents “Should the government release all the documents that it has about the Jeffrey Epstein case?”
A whopping 79% said yes, versus just % who said no. Even crazier, 83% of TRUMP VOTERS answered yes.
Sixty-seven percent of all Americans also say there’s a coverup of evidence on Epstein.
This is all very bad for Trump, who has few good options. He can direct Bondi to release it all and risk being implicated. He can keep stonewalling and risk angering a base HE himself conditioned to distrust the government. Or he can simply hope the story gets replaced by something else.
He’s in a bind for sure. But as usual, it’s 100% one of his own making.
If nothing else, rump will manufacture something terrible to take everyone’s eye off this ball. The destruction of our democracy is mind blowing. Everyday there is a new assault.
Trump is delusional. And guilty