This Week's Trump Outrages, Epstein Edition

By Mort Kondracke

Six months into his second term, Donald Trump is adamant that the media and the public should be focused on his achievements. Instead, he’s bedeviled (to the delight of his adversaries) by a MAGA-led revolt over Attorney General Pam Bondi’s assertions that there is no “client list” of important men who participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual exploitation of underage girls and no evidence to counter the official finding that Epstein committed suicide in his jail cell while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

It’s important to observe that Bondi herself previously said that she had a “client list” sitting on her desk — “a truckload of evidence, “thousands of pages,” plus videos. After she changed her story, she said she was referring to the entire Epstein file, not a “client list” and that the videos would harm Epstein’s victims and would never be released.

That did not sit well in the MAGAverse and with right-wing conspiracy theorists like Laura Loomer and Alex Jones. Loomer charged that Bondi “is covering up child sex crimes that took place UNDER HER WATCH” when she was attorney general of Florida.

And the public disapproves of Trump & Co.’s performance, as well. Only 13%, according to a CBS News poll, say they’ve been transparent, 69% (including 62% of Republicans) think the government is concealing information on Epstein’s client list and 60% say the same about his death. Only 17% of voters approve of the administration’s handling of the scandal.

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