Trump urges MAGA supporters to forget about Epstein files – DW – 07/13/2025
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A US Department of Justice and the FBI memo concluded that Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a client list involving high-profile associates. It frustrated Trump's supporters who criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi.
  • A joint DOJ–FBI memo reaffirmed that no “client list” of high-profile individuals existed and found no evidence Epstein blackmailed anyone.
  • MAGA hardliners (e.g., Alex Jones) and some Trump allies lash out at AG Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, demanding disclosures.
  • President Trump urged supporters to stop attacking his team over “Epstein Files,” calling Epstein “somebody nobody cares about” and insisting his administration is “PERFECT.”
  • Internal friction reportedly flared between Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino (who threatened to quit) and Bondi, though Trump insists DOJ/FBI are united.
  • Trump wants the FBI to refocus on his unproven 2020 election–fraud claims rather than “the same old…documents on Jeffrey Epstein.”
  • crank0271@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    2 days ago

    I wish I were as optimistic as you. There have probably been dozens of times that he should have been “screwed” by the thing he’s getting away with or the people he’s pissing off by getting away with a thing. My guess, and I hope I am proven wrong because I don’t really follow the conservative crazysphere, is that a few of these people will break rank. Some of the true believers may be lost for good or at least for a while (Dan Bongino or whoever may quit and say some things that don’t get much media coverage), while some others (Alex Jones) will talk trash for a bit then gradually or overnight change their focus to something that isn’t this to redirect their followers’ attentions and bring them back to loving MAGA wholesale.

    Edit: corrected a word

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      as long as putin/russia isnt directing thier propaganda to “forget it”, right now putin is kinda pissed at trump for suggesting attacking russia, hence why the troll farms arnt supporting him right now.(yes we know fox and many of the grifters are funded by russia so they get thier orders from them)

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      3 days ago

      The stakes are too high, it goes way beyond “losing your job” or being embarrassed and shunned by the establishment. Their lives are at stake, and not only that but their family, their extended families’ lives, North Korea style.

      Nobody would believe them anyway, it would get buried, these people own the media, they own the government, they own the police, the feds, they single handedly own this planet financially and militarily and they own YOU.

      Brave new fucking world indeed.

      People saw this coming decades upon decades ago, and blew the whistles until they got blue in the face, and yet everyone silently went into the gas chambers anyway.

      Precisely because they controlled the truth.

      Welcome to post Orwellian society, the gloves and the masks are finally coming off, they don’t even need to hide anymore, the coup is complete, and they have AI now!

      Let’s party!