The Trump administration’s bombshell announcement that paedophile Jeffrey Epstein did not have a ‘client list’ has enraged his most loyal supporters.
Last week, it was announced by the FBI that ‘no such list’ existed, months after Attorney General Pam Bondi said a copy was sitting on her desk.
For years, Trump had told his supporters that he would release Epstein’s alleged client list, which reportedly contains high-level celebrities and politicians.
Now, his supporters are outraged – even burning their red ‘Make America Great Again’ hats – after the Trump’sp administration’s seemingly reversed on their promises.
Trump has defended Bondi, who many have said should be fired from her position.
He wrote on Truth Social: ‘LET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB… We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein.
‘For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration…
‘They created the Epstein Files, just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me,’ he rambled.
‘Let’s keep it that way, and not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.’
Some of the biggest supporters of Trump are not pleased with his approach to the outrage.
One of his voters replied below the post that his statement had ‘broken her heart’.
She wrote: ‘These victims were someone’s daughters, sisters, nieces, granddaughters. Someone’s child. Please reconsider, sir. I voted for everything you are doing!’
Another suggested that the President was failing to ‘read the room’ and said that the MAGA faithful would not just ‘fall in line’.
Far-right influencers are also calling for people to burn their famous MAGA hats. Nick Fuentes wrote: ‘We need to burn our MAGA hats, I think that’s a solution.
‘That’s the only language Trump will understand. He needs to be abandoned at this point. Now he’s going to tell us there’s no Epstein black book, no client list.
‘The message needs to be this: ‘We’re done. We don’t understand. The radical right is f***ing furious. We are done.’
Politico’s playbook observed: ‘Now? It’s a huge credibility problem. Vance, Patel, Bongino and Bondi — among others — effectively have to either acknowledge that they were not just wrong about the government covering up for Epstein, but actually making stuff up, or they come off like they’re part of a cover-up themselves.’
But discontent with Trump’s handling of the situation has also spread among senior government members.
FBI head Kash Patel and his deputy, Bongino, have both threatened to leave their roles if Bondi is not removed.
Today, Trump said he spoke to Bongino after the outcry about Epstein, remarking: ‘Dan Bongino, very good guy. I’ve known him a long time. I’ve done his show many, many times. He sounded terrific, actually.’
Meanwhile, MAGA arch loyalist Steve Bannon was spotted on Friday at an event where attendees said Trump was ‘covering up for pedophiles’ and had become ‘the deep state’.
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