Trump followed up during a performance in the White House. Some “stupid” and “foolish Republicans” went into the trap of the Democratic Party and thus did the work of the opposition, the president was outraged.
Critical comments from Trump supporters have been piling up on online platforms for days. They accuse the government, not as promised to have brought light into the scandal to have brought the US billionaire Epstein, which was found in his prison cell in Manhattan in 2019. The investment banker had been accused of misused numerous girls and young women.
In February, Trump’s Minister of Justice Pam Bondi gave the impression in an interview that there was a list of prominent customers of Epstein and this will soon be released. At the beginning of July, however, Bondi and FBI boss Kash Patel suddenly contested the existence of such a list.
Bondi also confirmed in her memo from the beginning of July that Epstein had committed suicide. Some conspiracy theorists in Trump’s Maga warehouse (Make America Great Again, makes America great again) believe that Epstein has been murdered to silence him.
Especially against the Minister of Justice, there are massive demand for withdrawal in the affair. However, Trump’s vehement reaction feeds speculation that he could himself be on an Epstein customer list. Trump’s name had appeared in previous documents, but misconduct was not charged to him.
Trump described Epstein in 2002 as “great guys” and said that he may “” beautiful women as well as me, and many of them are on the younger side “. At that time, Epstein was still Trump’s neighbor in Palm Beach in Florida.
In Trump’s Republican Party there is growing concern about the revolt. The majority leader of the party in the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, had asked for “transparency” in the affair on Tuesday to calm the supporters.
The important intermediate elections for congress will be due in the coming year. There, the Republicans only have scarce majorities in both chambers. Former presidential advisor Steve Bannon already warned a few days ago that the Epstein scandal could cost the Republicans ten percent of the vote.
Other Trump supporters also spoke up. Trump’s former security advisor Mike Flynn wrote in a long contribution to X that the Epstein case was by no means a “deception”, as subordinate to the president. Rather, it is about crimes on children. He called on the President to “restore a minimum level of trust between our federal government and the people to whom it should serve”.
The Epstein scandal is the greatest turmoil against Trump since the beginning of its second term almost six months ago. Most recently, it was rumored in the Maga camp when the president accepted a gifted luxury pilot from Qatar and was speculated as Iran’s longer US mission. In both cases, however, calm quickly returned.
