Trump has finally told a lie that MAGA will not agree to believe.
MAGA is livid over a
Saturday statement from President
Donald Trump, which doubled down on his administration’s handling of the Epstein files.
That post,
which was shared on Truth Social, defended Attorney General Pam Bondi and urged Trump’s followers to “not waste Time and Energy” on the convicted sex offender.
Instead he said, let's waste time on Hunter Biden! LOL
“President Trump rarely loses touch with what’s happening among the base, but he’s missing the pulse on this one,”
wrote Robby Starbuck, a conservative activist, in a post on X.
“If the administration doesn’t address the massive number of unanswered questions about Epstein … then moving forward on so many other monumental challenges our nation is facing becomes much harder.”
Self-described Trump supporters similarly flooded his
Truth Social replies with their critiques
“This statement breaks my heart, Mr. President. … Please reconsider, sir. I voted for everything you are doing! Accountability was not something negotiable,” wrote one Truth Social user identified as
@Rosie0226. “This is going to cost you so many supporters. I being one of them,” wrote another user identified as
@trustds1.
And former Trump ally Elon Musk took this opportunity to lay into the president, too, boosting another X user who described the lengthy Saturday diatribe as
“in the running for the worst post ever made.” “Just release the files as promised,” Musk wrote.
The MAGA revolt comes after Trump officials – including
FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino – peddled conspiracy theories about Epstein for years, just to turn around and dispute them in a recent report.
Previously,
Bongino had questioned whether Epstein died by suicide, while Bondi had said that an
Epstein client list was “sitting on my desk right now to review” while speaking in a Fox News interview in February.
Previously, his supporters alleged that Democrats were trying to cover up the truth about Epstein’s death and his ties with powerful men, and now they’re accusing the current administration of doing the same.