- Trump is listed in government files. In 1996 Maria Farmer went to the NY Police Dept, then the FBI to complain about Epstein, and suggested that law enforcement investigate Epstein’s associates, very much including Donald Trump. She repeated that during a 2006 FBI interview. Gifted:
- Regarding the possible splintering of the MAGA base conservative columnist David French has some insight. Trump has lied to MAGA a lot, but in the past he was telling them what they wanted to hear. Now he isn’t:
[MAGA] are now faced with two terrible options. One, all the whole conspiracy is correct and Trump’s in on it, or they were lying to us all along. So what’s going on here?
However, while I think the story has legs, I don’t see Trump’s favorability ratings collapsing because of this. David French:
How are people reconciling themselves to it? I think the answer is really, really simple. At the end of the day, MAGA is going to turn to all of its people and say: “Whatever you do, you can’t help the left. Whatever you do, you can’t undermine Trump because if you undermine Trump, that’s what the media wants. That’s what the left wants.” So you’re going to begin to see a lot of this, “Well, whatever else Trump is, the left hates him. So you have to stand by him.”
And a lot of this is going to drill down to ultimately, why did people support Trump? Why have they been with him? And if the ultimate answer is because he hates Democrats and fights Democrats, then they’ll probably keep on clinging to Trump.
If their ultimate answer is, “I genuinely really thought he was gonna be God’s angel of vengeance against the global pedophiles,” then you might see some cracking in that support.
Yeah, no. Democrats piss off Christian conservatives, because their very existence is a constant reminder of the fundamentalist camp’s utter absence of Christian charity. That’s not how Democrats perceive themselves – most (not all) Dems would balk at an extension of the welfare state to Scandinavian levels, at least once they grasp the tax hikes involved – but it does explain conservative Christian sputtering rage. Not gifted: