Source: Wired
by Jake Lahut
“Privately, some of President Donald Trump’s most loyal allies have come to a sobering conclusion. There’s simply nothing that can be done, they’ve come to believe, to salvage the ongoing catastrophe that is the MAGA base fraying over the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein. People aren’t jumping off the Trump train yet — at least not in significant numbers, though polling shows at least 60 percent of Americans disapprove of his handling of the Epstein case in recent weeks — but the damage has been done with supporters. ‘Honestly, like, fuck Trump,’ a Trumpworld source who works in conservative media tells me. ‘I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but there’s obviously something nefarious that went on.’ … The Epstein story has been a viral content machine on the right for years, and it has too much momentum behind it to simply be shut down and stopped in its tracks.” (08/06/25)