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President Trump has been trying and failing to get his supporters to stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein. Our journalists explain why MAGA won't let go of this scandal, how the president misread his base — and what all this shows about the limits of Trump's power. Listen on "The Daily."

trib.alHow the Epstein Story Revealed Cracks in the MAGA BaseWhat President Trump’s apparent inability to stop his supporters talking about Jeffrey Epstein reveals about the limits of his power.

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What appears as a crack in the base is nothing more than Trump educating the base on the fuller meaning of vulnerability. His base thrives not on accountability but on vulnerability. This apparent ‘crack’ is a necessary rise in their learning curve. Welcome to the Vulnerability Nation. 👇🏾

MAGA - Supporters - His Base - Same talking points non stop . Republicans - Republicans - The Republican Base - Y’all promise this magical MAGA are not republicans that vote republican. Y’all swear that the Republican are not doing this shit . It’s the almighty mysterious powerful MAGA

* The MAGA community is a belief system. A magical thinking Religion of resentment & grievance against the government, “they believe” is unfair, unjust or violates their rights. And Trump is their vengeance redeemer; Who are blinded by hate & used as a weapon by Trump. Koresh motif *

Always interesting to see what articles NY Times is afraid to mention on bluesky like the one they just ran both-siding masked-Gestapo ICE police. "Will no one think of the children -of ICE officers?"

Weird. Why does your digital site have this as the headline “How Trump Deflected MAGA’s Wrath Over Epstein, at Least for Now By tapping into other grievances, President Trump managed to turn one of the most fractious moments for his base into a unifying one.” You think we are too stupid to check?

Why does The Times also debase itself by publishing this puke when it knows full well that people who truly cared about who Epstein’s clients and collaborators were still care about who Epstein’s clients and collaborators were and no amount of distraction politics changes that. #TrumpIsOnTheList

“Twisting conspiracy theories into a Gordian knot of hate, Trump is claiming some Epstein files were “made up” by Barack Obama, James Comey, “Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration” and “Crooked Hillary.” It’s tough to blame the deep state when you are the deep state.” - Maureen Dowd 🤨🤨🤨

And then you publish how none of it matters. You don’t report facts anymore. All you do is post everything through the lens of if it impacts Trump’s popularity. Truth is irrelevant

Do you analyze why journalists failed to cover this adequately during his two presidential races? And only now when his base raises it do you do in depth analysis? Be journalists not stenographers.

You do realise that Trump is a 34-time convicted felon and rapist.... and a very good friend to Epstein and Maxwell? Still, you keep doing you; but I recommend getting your head out of his arse to take a breath once in a while...