{"id":44590,"date":"2025-07-09T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44590"},"modified":"2025-07-09T21:29:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T02:29:36","slug":"democrats-gloat-as-maga-world-explodes-over-epstein-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44590","title":{"rendered":"Democrats gloat as MAGA World explodes over Epstein files"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Democrats are experiencing a devilish glee as MAGA World clashes<\/u><\/a> over the Trump administration\u2019s push to defuse conspiracy theories surrounding the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In cable news interviews, social media posts and formal calls to release more Epstein files, Democrats are highlighting the administration\u2019s handling of the case in hopes of exacerbating the unusual tensions between President Trump and a conservative base that\u2019s stood firmly behind the president on virtually every issue he tackles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats are also exploiting the divisions to advance another unfounded theory: that Trump won\u2019t release the files because he\u2019s featured within them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And they are not veiling their sense of schadenfreude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is like me dunking on my 8-year-old and his friends on the short hoops at school,\u201d Democratic strategist Eddie Vale told The Hill. \u201cThey set themselves up for it with their MAGA base, and now the pedo chickens are coming home to roost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A large and vocal contingent of Trump\u2019s most loyal supporters has long promoted baseless theories that the government has covered up the details of Epstein\u2019s alleged sex trafficking of minors, including a supposed \u201cclient list\u201d of powerful figures from the world of business and government alike. Trump, on the campaign trail, said he was \u201cinclined\u201d to declassify the entire file. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday, however, an unsigned memo<\/u><\/a> from Trump\u2019s Department of Justice (DOJ) discredited those claims, saying there\u2019s no evidence<\/u><\/a> that Epstein maintained any such client roster or attempted to blackmail elites who might have engaged in illegal sexual activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties,\u201d the memo reads<\/u><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DOJ also released 11 hours of video<\/u><\/a> from outside of Epstein\u2019s Manhattan prison cell in an effort to dispel rumors of foul play surrounding his death there \u2014 officially, by his own hand \u2014 following his arrest in 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe committed suicide,\u201d Attorney General Pam Bondi\u2002<\/u><\/a>told reporters Tuesday at the White House. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bondi\u2019s embrace of the official government account surrounding Epstein\u2019s actions and death was particularly striking, because it directly contradicts a claim she made earlier in the year: that she was in possession of Epstein\u2019s \u201cclient list\u201d and was ready to release it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is sitting on my desk right now to review,\u201d she told Fox News in February, shortly after becoming attorney general. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Trump-loyalists-turned-administration-officials have also flip-flopped on the question of what Epstein documents the government possesses and whether they should be released for public consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, Kash Patel\u2002<\/u><\/a>and Dan Bongino\u2002<\/u><\/a>had stoked conspiracies that the government was concealing an Epstein roster of fellow pedophiles to protect some of the world\u2019s most wealthy and powerful people. But both Patel, who\u2019s now director of the FBI, and Bongino, who serves as Patel\u2019s chief deputy at the agency, now say there\u2019s no conspiracy to report. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shift has infuriated many of Trump\u2019s most ardent backers, many of whom bashed the law enforcement officials as sellouts. Some say the officials have become a part of the scandal they once decried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs trusted voices like @FBIDDBongino, @FBIDirectorKash, and @AGPamBondi align with the official story, many are asking: Who\u2019s still willing to demand real answers?\u201d LindellTV, the account of Trump ally Mike Lindell\u2002<\/u><\/a>on the social platform X, posted this week. \u201cWhy are so many high-profile names never mentioned? Why seal everything if there\u2019s nothing to hide?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2002<\/u><\/a>(R-Ga.) joined the critics<\/u><\/a>, saying the DOJ \u201chas more explaining to do.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is Jeffrey Epstein. This is the most famous pedophile in modern-day history, and people are absolutely not going to accept just a memo that was written that says there is no client list,\u201d Greene said Wednesday in an interview on the Real America\u2019s Voice network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eruption from Trump\u2019s staunchest allies has delighted the president\u2019s Democratic rivals, who are savoring the internal sniping among the MAGA faithful \u2014 and highlighting it to put salt in the wound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWatching these clowns crash out because they put all their chips on Trump releasing the Epstein list, to only find out the real reason he\u2019s not releasing it\u2026it\u2019s just too good,\u201d Rep. Eric Swalwell\u2002<\/u><\/a>(D-Calif.) posted on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have gone a long step further<\/u><\/a>. In a July 8 letter to Bondi, the Democrats noted that Patel, at his Senate confirmation hearing, had pledged to release all available Epstein files in the name of government transparency, only to reverse course this week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis raises the question of whether the White House has moved to prevent the declassification and public release of the full Epstein files because they implicate President Trump, and whether these massive redaction efforts and the withholding of the files were intended to shield your boss from embarrassing revelations within those files,\u201d reads the letter, which was spearheaded by Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fueling the MAGA dispute has been Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur and onetime Trump ally who has more recently feuded<\/u><\/a> with the president over the Republicans\u2019 \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d and launched a third party to compete with the GOP. As the power pair traded barbs on social media, Musk asserted that Trump would never release the Epstein files because he was named within them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the DOJ\u2019s memo was unveiled this week, Musk took another shot at the president. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s the time? Oh look, it\u2019s no-one-has-been-arrested-o\u2019clock again,\u201d Musk posted on X, beside a graphic of \u201cthe official Jeffrey Epstein\u2002<\/u><\/a>Pedophile Arrest Counter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, for his part, appears frustrated by the intense focus on the Epstein saga. On Tuesday, when Bondi was pressed on the issue, Trump stepped in and lashed out at the reporter<\/u><\/a> who asked the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAre you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy\u2019s been talked about for years,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAre people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable. Do you want to waste the time?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats are hardly sympathetic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joel Payne, a Democratic strategist, said the MAGA clash has a karmic quality to it, since many of the same figures who kindled the Epstein conspiracy theories are now taking the heaviest fire from the Trump faithful who became convinced of a cover-up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou reap what you sow,\u201d Payne said. \u201cThey\u2019ve played footsie in bad faith with conspiracy theorists for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGood luck managing the monster you created.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

thehill<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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