President Donald Trump spent the weekend appealing to his followers to let go one of the most lurid conspiracies that he himself had helped stoke over the years. In a string of TruthSocial posts, he implored his MAGA base to stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted child sex abuser. Trump railed against the “selfish people” among them for their attacks on Attorney General Pam Bondi and others over a topic that “nobody cares about.”
As of Monday, Trump’s appeals have fallen on deaf ears as the outrage over his administration’s handling of the so-called Epstein files has continued to burn unabated. Ironically enough, the catalyst for this schism on the far-right was a rare example of the administration telling the truth in the face of conspiracy theories. Instead, it’s blown up in their faces leaving few credible options to stem the anger at Bondi and calls to deliver a supposed “client list” that doesn’t exist.
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