“When we look back on the history of populism in America, we are going to look back on the MAGA movement as the biggest scam in history… the liberals were right. The MAGA supporters were had. We will see Trump as a scam artist”[Nick Fuentes- right-wing MAGA influencer]
I don’t usually agree with anything Nick Fuentes says. But on this we have a meeting of the minds. Fuentes was reacting to breaking news about the Epstein files. Much of the MAGAverse is upset about the Epstein files. Many believe Trump is engaged in a cover up and is protecting a bunch of rich elites and maybe himself. Most Americans think Trump is failing when it comes to handling the Epstein situation.
The Emerson College Polling survey, released Friday, found 51 percent said they disapprove of the administration’s handling of the Epstein files, while 16 percent approve.
For anyone who has been reading the news for the past 40 years, it’s pretty clear that Trump is both protecting himself and probably some rich friends from being exposed by what’s in the Epstein files. Whatever Trump is afraid could come out about himself must be bad enough to make him want to shield himself from it. Why else would he pull a thousand FBI agents and US Attorneys away from their normal jobs to scour the Epstein files more than once for anything that could damage him? You have to think there must be some ugly stuff he is afraid could be made public. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/politics/epstein-files-trump-bondi-justice-department-fbi.html
This comes after years of hyping the idea to MAGAs that exposing the Epstein files would reveal the rotten men who took advantage of Epstein’s sex trafficked girls and Trump would out them all. This promise to the 10% of the MAGA base that was Q’Anon helped Trump get elected. Trump and others like Kash Patel and Don Bongino claimed the bad guys were Hollywood and Democratic elite. But Trump is obviously running for cover now and doing what he can to keep some sort of damning information about himself from coming out even while pretending to be transparent.
As part of Trump’s effort to pretend to get to the truth, he called for the grand jury testimony related to Epstein to be unsealed. But that’s baloney. He knows grand jury testimony is next to worthless. It will be so heavily redacted that people named in that testimony will not be identifiable. The real way to figure out what happened with this sex trafficking ring is to follow the money as Senator Ron Wyden is doing. Or explore other global sex trafficking rings run by rich guys who gave young women the chance to get out of dead end places like Slovenia and get into modeling where the lifestyle was so bad that opportunities to be sexually trafficked were actually appealing.
TRUMP AND EPSTEIN WERE GOOD PALS FOR YEARS
It is common knowledge that Trump and Epstein were besties for many years when they were younger. They palled around a lot and had sex with models of indeterminant age. Trump probably didn’t bother to ask the age of the models he had sex with. Melania herself was part of a group of models brought over from Europe by Epstein. Many of the sex trafficked girls were from Belarus or Slovenia and other Eastern European countries. Melania and Donald had sex for the first time on Epstein’s private jet. [Court of History- interview of Michael Wolff 7/24/25]
Interest in the Epstein files was reignited big time after Elon Musk, in his anger at Trump for kicking him out of his role in government leading DOGE, proclaimed on X that Donald was in the Epstein files.
“Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files,” he wrote. “That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”
Trump’s first impulse, when bad information about himself gets into the public domain, is always to call it a hoax and launch a cover up. But Musk nailed it when he retorted on X:
“Wow I can’t believe Epstein killed himself before realizing it was all a hoax.”
Trump’s responses to the MAGA demand for transparency about Epstein have been keeping MAGA on fire because it has become painfully obvious that Trump is covering up the truth probably to protect himself and others.
THE COVER UP
Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal added fuel to the fire when the WSJ published a birthday card from Trump to his buddy, Epstein, on his 50th birthday. The Trump drawing was part of a whole book of birthday cards given to Epstein by his close friends. The WSJ describes the drawing as “bawdy” drawing of a nude signed by Trump with his iconic signature in the crotch of the nude with a suggestive note about how he, Trump, and Epstein had secrets together and were both “enigmas”.
When that drawing was made public, Trump claimed he never drew anything. But then it came out that he was lying about that because he often doodled and sold his doodles or gave them to charities to auction off when he was younger.
Murdoch, who hates Trump, has continued to publish more information about the Trump-Epstein bromance, making it crystal clear that Trump and Epstein were good buddies and also making it clear that Murdoch doesn’t intend to back down like other scaredy cat media including ABC and CBS. Murdoch doesn’t care that Trump is suing the WSJ for libel in a ten billion dollar lawsuit. That lawsuit is garbage and will be dismissed by the first judge who hears this case. Murdoch understands that.
Who else thinks Trump is covering up for a bunch of elite pedophile sex trafficking scumbags?
Turns out a lot of right-wing influencers do. And they include Marjorie Taylor Greene who has vowed not to give up on this quest for transparency. She’s like the hound from hell. But she is not the only one. Many other right-wing influencers are commenting. The base continues to be enraged about this cover up.
Because of this re-ignited public interest, reporters and investigators are hunting for more images of Trump with Epstein from the past. New video has surfaced showing Epstein attending Trump’s wedding to Marla Maples, for example. There is video of Trump and Epstein at a party talking animatedly. They are clearly good friends. Interviews from victims are being replayed on cable news.
Things were bad enough for Trump and then it got worse when news broke that Pam Bondi had told Trump back in May that he appeared in the Epstein files numerous times but when recently asked by a reporter if he had already been told that he was in the Epstein files, Trump said NO, which was a flat out lie. More fuel for the idea that Trump is covering up.
THE WAY TRUMP IS HANDLING THIS IS MAKING IT WORSE FOR HIM
Trump has been going nuts trying to distract the public: He is suing Rupert Murdoch for billions of dollars, he is claiming Obama committed treason, he is saying Hillary Clinton should be arrested.
His AG, Pam Bondi, demanded the Florida grand jury open their Epstein files. But Bondi worked in Florida as the AG there and had to know that requesting a judge in Florida to unseal the grand jury testimony from a Florida grand jury would be denied. Florida judges are not allowed to unseal grand jury testimony by Florida law. The judge denied the request. Duh.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released new documents that, as the Times reports, “she said undermined the conclusion of intelligence agencies during the Obama administration that Russia favored” Trump in the 2016 election.
Following the release, Senate Intel Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) had this to say: “It seems as though the Trump administration is willing to declassify anything and everything except the Epstein files.” [Politico]
Trump is feverishly doing everything he can to try to satisfy his base without exposing any real information, which, as president, he has the power to declassify and make public any time he wants to. Instead, he is trying to change the subject from Epstein to some other topic he hopes will preoccupy his base. So far it’s not working. The MAGA base was already circling Trump like sharks in the water following a bleeding swimmer as Trump keeps throwing chum into the water to keep them from attacking him. This mess of his own making could be a gift that keeps on giving for the Democrats.
DEMS AND REPUBLICANS JOIN TOGETHER OVER EPSTEIN
As Trump flails, the Dems have pulled together and for once they have Republicans in Congress, forced by the MAGA base, to join them in demanding transparency and more information. The Epstein files are doing what nothing else has done to date, namely, unify right wing Republicans with Democrats, but only because the MAGA base is forcing their representatives to heel.
Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, actually shut down the House and released House members to go home early for the summer rather than allow a vote to take place that had bipartisan support demanding the release of the Epstein file. But Democrats on the Oversight Subcommittee were able to get three Republicans to join them to break with Trump and demand unredacted Epstein files:
The Democrats’ first big win came from the House Oversight Committee. During a hearing for the Oversight Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement on Wednesday, Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) introduced a subpoena for the full cache of unredacted Epstein files in the government’s possession. It passed 8-2 after Democrats pressured three far-right Republicans to join the motion: Reps. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), Brian Jack (R-Ga.), and Scott Perry (R-Pa.) [Politico]
If Johnson thinks this issue will go away over August when Congress takes a break, he is wrong. The Democrats are not going to let it slip away and the MAGA base will not give up their quest to expose the bad guys they were told would be brought to justice.
WHY DID TRUMP’S FIXER MEET WITH GHISLAINE MAXWELL?
Attorney General Pam Bondi said Monday that Deputy Attorney Todd Blanche will meet with Maxwell sometime in the “coming days.”
That meeting happened on July 24th and July 25th. Maxwell is serving a 20 year sentence in a Florida prison for being Epstein’s accomplice- she was the person who found young girls for Epstein and along with Epstein, groomed the girls to provide sex for Epstein’s clients. There was ample evidence at Ghislaine’s trial about her role and many of the young victims testified about how this ruined their lives. Some have even committed suicide.
So what is Todd Blanche doing by meeting with Maxwell?
Blanche was and still is Trump’s own lawyer. He was Trump’s defense lawyer when Trump faced criminal charges during the Biden administration. Even though he has the role of Deputy AG, a role that USED to be independent from presidential influence, Blanche is not independent. He is still Trump’s defense lawyer, his loyal fixer, like Michael Cohen once was. I think Blanche is probably coaching Maxwell to remember as many Democrats and Hollywood types as possible who were on Epstein’s sex island or his plane or some other place where these trafficked girls were kept. In exchange, the Trump administration will portray Maxwell as a “scapegoat” who took the fall for Epstein so she can get a reduced sentence or a Trump pardon. Will this get the MAGAs off his back? Or will it will make Trump look more guilty?
What’s crazy is that the MAGA base did not seem to know that Trump was one of Epstein’s closest friends and allies and that they both had a lot of sex with young models in that decade of close friendship. They parted ways over a dispute about a property they both wanted in Palm Beach. Epstein showed the property to Trump and then Trump went behind his pal’s back and put in a higher bid to help a Russian oligarch who was working with Trump to locate and buy expensive real estate- which is how the Russian oligarchs launder money. Trump, at the time, was facing ruin because of his failed casinos. [Court of History 7/24/25]
Trump is going to try to get out of this mess like Houdini’s chain shackle escape. Will he succeed? And whether or not he does, will the American people realize that what they really should be upset about is Trump’s big ugly bill because it has wrecked their futures? Maybe. There are some canaries in the coal mine.
WHAT THE POLLS TELL US ABOUT HOW AMERICANS FEEL ABOUT THIS ADMINISTRATION
Six months into his second term, President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has dipped to 37%, the lowest of this term and just slightly higher than his all-time worst rating of 34% at the end of his first term. Trump’s rating has fallen 10 percentage points among U.S. adults since he began his second term in January, including a 17-point decline among independents, to 29%, matching his lowest rating with that group in either of his terms. [Gallup]
Americans don’t like what they are hearing about the so called Big Beautiful Bill and the fall out from that bill hasn’t even hit home yet. They don’t like the way Trump is handling immigration- too brutal. They are not happy about the economy.
Maybe Americans are starting to realize that Republicans have figured out how to kill Obamacare (the ACA) in their BBBill, by larding it up with restrictions and requirements so that Americans on Medicaid will lose their coverage by failing to properly fill out copious forms and comply with work requirements and administrative crap. By reducing funding, Medicare will also yield less support. Republicans also killed the SNAP program which helped poor kids get enough food to eat. Their bill will demolish many rural hospitals forcing many of Trump’s own voters to travel many hours farther to get emergency help or give birth to a baby. This bill is the single biggest transfer of money from the poor to the rich in the history of our country. Maybe that’s starting to sink in.
SO, WHAT’S TRUMP HIDING?
Trump has been hiding lots of things from his MAGA supporters. The biggest thing he is hiding from his voters is that he doesn’t care one bit about making their lives better. He is a con man and he just wants them to vote for him. So he will say what they want to hear to get their votes.
Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) puts it well: “Donald Trump just takes care of himself first. And then when he’s done doing that, he takes care of his richest friends next and shields them from any form of accountability. . . . When this guy said ‘Drain the swamp,’ he was just lying to you.”
So here’s your Headline, MAGAs: Donald Trump has kept the Epstein files secret to protect himself and his rich business friends while also giving these rich dudes huge tax breaks paid for by YOUR health care.
Wake up! The liberals were right. Trump has been scamming you. Don’t take it from me. Listen to Nick Fuentes.