Musk, MAGA Torch Trump and Bondi Over Epstein Files

The Felon has actively pushed all kinds of conspiracy theories that are lapped up and embraced by the MAGA world base, including conspiracy theories surrounding convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Now, after claiming a list of clients of Epstein and his convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell who pursued underage girls existed and were in the possession of the FBI and Department of Justice, Attorney General Pam Bondi has now said no such lists exist and that Epstein committed suicide rather than having been murdered as some conspiracy theories have maintained.  Now, many in MAGA world are foaming at the mouth and demonstrating that sometimes what one sows can come back to bite one in the ass.  The Felon is attempting to ignore the firestorm and divert attention to the Texas food tragedy - or anything he can think of - but to date such attempts seemingly have gotten him nowhere.  The fact that there are photos and the Felon and Epstein and Maxwell all over the Internet does nothing to help this flailing attempted effort to change the subject.  A piece in Politico looks at the controversy:

Some of President Donald Trump’s top MAGA supporters — and his one-time friend Elon Musk — are stewing at the administration’s decision to not release any more information about the criminal case and death of Jeffrey Epstein, focusing their rage on Attorney General Pam Bondi and other senior law enforcement officials.

The Trump administration announced Monday night that a Department of Justice and FBI review found no evidence of an incriminating client list or history of blackmail from Epstein, who died by suicide in a New York jail cell in 2019.

The anger from some of Trump’s most ardent backers — whose support for the president was bolstered by his administration’s openness to engage in conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein — has been fierce. The rift, along with fissures over U.S. involvement in the Middle East and Ukraine, could threaten to destabilize the close relationship between the president and his base.

“Blondi should be fired,” far-right activist Laura Loomer said in a text message to POLITICO, using a derisive nickname for Bondi. “I think she’s trying to protect herself from her own horrible record and Epstein’s crimes, which trace back to her time as AG of Florida.”

Bondi has taken perhaps the most heat. She’s long faced pressure from both sides of the aisle to release Epstein’s alleged “client list,” especially after suggesting in a February Fox News interview that the relevant documents were “sitting on my desk right now.” But the administration announcement Monday said there was no client list.

Bondi — along with FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino — has faced backlash from online influencers they previously courted. In February, conservative influencers including Rogan O’Handley, who calls himself DC_Draino on X, and Jack Posobiec were invited to the White House and given binders said to contain more information on Epstein’s case.

But those binders had little in the way of new insights, the influencers later said.

Liz Wheeler, another MAGA influencer also invited to the White House in February, told conservative commentator Glenn Beck on his show Monday that Bondi had “become a liability to this administration.”

But Trump, for his part, is looking to move on from the episode.

“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy has been talked about for years. We have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things. Are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable,” he said at the Tuesday Cabinet meeting. “I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein at a time like this, when we’ve had some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration.”

But those close to the president acknowledge that the situation has been mishandled.

“It’s a massive mess that has caused a lot of frustration,” a senior Trump administration official told POLITICO Playbook. “The problem was those binders. Every decision they’ve made since that day has compounded the problem.”

Trump has also voiced his support for Patel and Bongino in a Monday post on Truth Social. And Leavitt insisted that the White House had prioritized transparency throughout its investigation.

“They committed to an exhaustive investigation,” she said during the press briefing Monday. “That’s what they did, and they provided the results of that. That’s transparency.”

But MAGA pitchforks have been sharpened by the figures within the administration who pushed conspiracy theories involving Epstein before joining the White House, including Patel and Vice President JD Vance.

One former White House employee, Musk, joined the crowd slamming the administration with a series of posts on X.

“How can people be expected to have faith in Trump if he won’t release the Epstein files?” he posted Tuesday afternoon.

I for one hope the firestorm continues.