Trump Gaslights His MAGA Base: Is This Supposed to be "Winning"?

Trump recently expressed his disinterest in pursuing the Jeffrey Epstein matter after the Justice Department on July 7th released a memo detailing how Epstein died at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (NYC) in 2019. Not only was foul play ruled out with Epstein committing suicide in his jail cell (rather than being murdered by someone else as most people probably think), but there was reportedly no blackmail client “list” used to incriminate those involved in any sex crimes on his island.

This is precisely what Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, has publicly said adding that “no further disclosure” on Epstein-related material “would be appropriate or warranted.” Bondi’s announcement, of course, directly contradicted her public statements back in February when she said that the “list” was literally sitting on her desk: “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review,” she told ‘America Reports’ host John Roberts (FOX News). “That’s been a directive by President Trump.” And what about all those “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” binders that were given at the White House to the social media influencers just a few months prior? What was that all about if there was no client list to begin with?

Attempts to explain away this glaring contradiction have not been successful and has only managed to stir up more criticism from Trump’s own political base.

Trump feigns bewilderment over why Americans are still interested in the Epstein affair when his administration has been accomplishing so much good for the American people and when more pressing matters need to be addressed (e.g., his efforts at securing a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, his bombing of Iran, rebuilding the economy, the recent Texas floods, etc.). He has labeled the entire Epstein case as “sordid and boring” and has even gone as far as to accuse Obama, former FBI Director, James Comey, and the Biden administration of ‘making up’ the Epstein files!?

On Truth Social, Trump went on tell his supporters not to “waste time and energy on Jeffrey Epstein” (July 12th) - and that’s precisely what several prominent conservative pundits have obediently done in urging their followers to ‘move on’ from the Epstein matter. Charlie Kirk on July 14th said that he was “done talking about Epstein for the time being” and that he would “trust” his “friends in the government to do what needs to be done.” Dinesh D’Souza said essentially the same thing stating that it’s “time to move on” and “it seems pretty clear we’re not gonna get more information out of the government.”

Aside from the fact that Trump himself declared during his 2024 campaign efforts that he would release the Epstein files, there are a plethora of good reasons to be concerned about the sexual crimes that Jeffrey Epstein committed against hundreds of underage girls, including the many important and influential persons who fell prey to what appeared to have been an obvious ‘honey pot’ scheme possibly orchestrated and funded by the Mossad. There is also the matter of justice and what kind of country has the U.S. morphed into by having allowed a widescale pedophile rape network to go unscathed. One also wonders why Epstein’s partner-in-crime, Ghislane Maxwell, is still in prison serving a 20-year sentence if no client “list” ever existed and if there was no evidence that sexual crimes against underage children occurred?

Several theories have been advanced as to why Trump wants to place the Epstein matter behind us and move on to better things.

One view is that behind-the-scenes Trump had to promise that he would jettison the Epstein affair altogether in exchange for strategic votes he needed for the passing of his ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’ It’s also thought that Trump’s reversal on the Epstein list might assuage some hostilities between democrats and republicans and that cooperation might occur between those on both aisles over future legislation. This is possible, I suppose, but I’m not so sure this was basis for Trump’s reversal on the Epstein matter. I’m not aware of any evidence in support of it.

Another view is that Trump is on the Epstein blackmail list and not just on the “Lolita Express” flight log to Epstein’s Island. This is what Elon Musk had maintained since breaking with Trump a few months earlier when he wrote on X: “Time to drop the really big bomb: (Donald Trump) is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT. Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out” (June 5th).

Judge Andrew Napolitano likewise on a recent YouTube interview thought that Trump’s change of mind about the Epstein client list is because he’s on it: “I think Trump’s name is on the list. I think Mossad knows it. I think Mossad told their American stenographer, who happens to be the director of the CIA who takes down and regurgitates everything Mossad told him, and I think that stenographer whispered it into the president’s ear, and he’s terrified that this will come out because he knows that it will be the beginning of the end” (George Galloway’s YouTube channel, July 9, 2025).

Although it’s true that Trump’s name is on the flight log (seven times!), this alone doesn’t constitute any proof that he engaged in sex with minors. These flights appear only to be business or vacation related. There were other important figures listed on the flight log as well, but that wouldn’t mean anything in a court of law by itself as ‘evidence’ of partaking in a sex-trafficking ring.

I’m not inclined to believe that Trump is guilty of committing sex crimes against minors, although I would not put it past Trump in an absolute sense because he was rumored to have had multiple affairs and allegedly cavorted with high-end prostitutes. Trump’s only real vice appears to be his sexual weakness for women because he doesn’t drink, smoke or do illegal narcotics. He’s also alleged to have made some inappropriate sexual comments about his 16-year-old daughter, Ivanka, in 1997 while watching the Miss Teen USA pageant: “Don’t you think my daughter’s hot? She’s hot, right?” He later referred to Ivanka as “voluptuous” and has allegedly described her as “a piece of ass,” even stating according to one report that if she wasn’t his daughter, “perhaps [he’d'] be dating her.” He agreed with Howard Stern in 2004 that Ivanka was indeed a “piece of ass” (see the article in the Independent, “Donald Trump’s Unsettling Record of Comments About His Daughter Ivanka,” by Adam Withnall, 10/10/2016).

I think only a person who is very sexually driven would think such things about his own daughter and dare to make such statements in a public forum. It’s downright creepy and perverted to say the least. Despite his hedonism, I doubt that Trump’s name is on the Epstein client list since he seemed to have preferred fully adult females rather than underage girls.

What I find interesting, however, is how many MAGA folks automatically shut down even the remote possibility that Trump might be on that infamous list. This is because in their minds they have turned Trump into some messianic ‘God-Emperor’ who can do no wrong. They seem to have little awareness of how sexually driven Trump appears to have been throughout much of his adult life, and the seedy characters that he partied with. Trump referred to Epstein as a “creep” in a recent press conference, yet most people are unaware that he partied and hobnobbed with the guy for over 15 years!

In a 2002 article in New York magazine, Trump admitted during a phone interview that “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy” . . . He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” If the kind of people you hang out with says something about your character - especially when such a friendship has lasted for 15 years - what does this suggest about the moral character of Trump? But as the old adage goes, “The best of men are men at best.”

One argument says that Trump couldn’t be on the client list because if he were, the democrats would have already exposed it. Maybe, yet I’m not so sure of this. If Trump were exposed as a client of Jeffrey Epstein, it surely would have exposed many others as well (or, at least the possibility of it). If the democrats were to have revealed Trump’s name on that list, it would have opened an entire Pandora’s Box of legal complexities and disclosures that would have jeopardized the reputation and livelihood of many important persons.

Knowing how vindictive Trump is, including the legal and propaganda war he would have waged if someone exposed his name as being on the blackmail list, it would have been an extremely dangerous endeavor indeed to have tried it without also exposing the lives of so many other important persons, including world leaders, popular entertainers, dignitaries, high ranking judges, and other elites. This, then, might have been a rare instance when the Deep State realized that it would be better to keep their mouths shut because to do otherwise would have invited endless legal inquiries or discoveries as to who else is on the list and brought enormous levels of immeasurable damage.

Exposing the list would also reveal the degree to which Israel in cooperation possibly with the CIA was involved in blackmailing American citizens. Making public the Epstein list, then, is a much bigger problem than that of simply discrediting Donald Trump.

Some have surmised that Trump was threatened by the Deep State. Perhaps even threats against his family were made? This is certainly a possibility. I wouldn’t put it beyond the Deep State to do such a thing. After all, Trump would not have been the first U.S. president assassinated by operatives within our own government. At this point, I just don’t know. We may never know.

Another scenario explaining Trump’s reversal on the Epstein matter argues that releasing the “list” (regardless of what form it may have taken) would unsettle or destabilize our society. I don’t think so for even a minute. Most people would just go back to their lives and do as they have always done. I seriously doubt there would be any widescale riots or a national revolution. Most Americans don’t care and are too preoccupied with the passing pleasures of this world to make an issue over a blackmail list they’ve never even seen over a bunch of rich perverts who diddled underage girls on some strange island.

Nothing about the Epstein files would “shock the conscience” of a nation that condones the deaths of millions of aborted and partially aborted babies each year, including the constant stream of pornography that Americans regularly consume and the low brow, raunchy entertainment that has become the norm among us.

The only persons who would be destabilized by a public reveal of the list would be the perpetrators and those who enabled them. They apparently don’t have anything to worry about now.

There is perhaps an even greater and more probable reason why Trump won’t release the Epstein files - namely, Mossad’s fingerprints seem to be all over it. It is believed by many in Washington (though practically no one will come out and say so) that Mossad had recruited and funded both Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell to create a ‘honey pot’ scheme that would document and implicate important persons having sexual relations with underage girls as a means of blackmailing them. If such persons refused to support Israeli political or military interests or funding for the State of Israel, they could always be threatened with revealing photographs or videos of them engaging in felonious sex crimes with minors.

It’s also important to understand that Israel is considered a strong U.S. ally. The United States provides billions in funds to Israel annually, and the majority of our congress not only supports Israel, but most congressional republicans have an AIPAC person to help guide them on any legislation that impacts the State of Israel. In 2024, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) exposed it all during an interview on The Tucker Carlson Show. He described these AIPAC persons as “babysitters” to make sure a congressman votes ‘the right way’ (meaning, their votes support the national interests of Israel and not necessarily that of the national interests of Americans).

Thus, Trump’s unwillingness to pursue the Epstein matter any further might be an effort to protect Israel, including at least one former Israeli prime minister who is alleged to have engaged in criminal sex acts with underage girls which he has denied (see “Ehud Barak Met with Jeffrey Epstein Dozens of Times, Flew on Private Plane - Report,” The Times of Israel, by TOI Staff, 5/4/2023).

If indeed the bigger picture is about protecting Israel as our ally, then think about the implications of such a cover-up. It would mean that U.S. officials knowingly allowed for almost twenty years an Israeli ‘honey pot’ enterprise to occur on American soil. The federal government, then, permitted a foreign government to entrap and blackmail American citizens for the express benefit of that foreign government!

This is treasonous to the core.

And if anything, it demonstrates just how much power and influence the State of Israel has over the United States.

Some pundits have surmised that Trump’s recent public statements about the Epstein files may have been a signal to those on the list that his administration will protect them and not disclose its contents. This very well could be the case. I imagine that a good many of the criminal perverts who flew to Epstein’s magical sex island were quite consoled by his words. Yet, in the end, Trump has betrayed his base, including the entirety of the American people who deserve to see what a vile and wicked federal government we have inherited. But don’t blame the Feds for too long because the American people allowed and tolerated this lying bureaucratic monstrosity to not only exist but flourish all the while doing nothing about it. We Americans, then, get the kind of government we deserve.

It’s also important to remember that under four years of the Biden administration, there was no significant effort to publicly reveal the Epstein list. As much as democrats like to talk about women’s rights, they fell silent and never collectively demanded answers from the Biden administration on behalf of the many victims. Like opposing war, negating the military industrial complex, and defending women’s rights, the democrats are only outspoken when a republican is in the Oval Office.

What about the future of MAGA? I don’t think there’s much to it, at least not under Donald Trump’s leadership. If there’s any hope, it has to be a strictly ‘America First’ kind of vision, one that doesn’t kowtow to Israel or tied exclusively to Jewish interests. It has to eschew warmongering and the military industrial complex. It has to eschew America as an empire and promote America as non-interventionist and peaceful toward other nations. It has to see both political parties as essentially a uniparty with relatively minor differences and more that unites them together than divides them (e.g., perpetual war, high taxes and low wages, foreign entanglements, endless support for Israel, continual foreign aid, unchecked immigration, discrimination against its founding stock (whites), and the list goes on).

But none of this will occur under a Trump presidency in light of current trends in which he has threatened Putin and vowed to send billions in armaments to Europe that he knows will be given to Ukraine to bomb Russia. Trump has wed himself closer to Israeli interests and has employed more military force than his prior presidential term.

It would be naive, then, to imagine that Trump would ever end the infinitely stronger and more complex Deep State. The Deep State is here to stay so long as the federal government continues to maintain its same destructive foreign policies, its excessive bureaucratic ways of governance, and its tyrannical nature that assumes every problem must be solved through military might and endless political meddling among foreign nations.

But what else should we expect from Trump when so much of what he promises either never actually occurs or is left incomplete? I’m thinking of the ‘Big Beautiful Wall’ that was at best a half-measure; declaring that there will be mass deportations of illegals that will likely turn out to be nothing more than national amnesty for third-world invaders (similar to what Reagan had done in the 1980s); the promise that he would end America’s warmongering only to engage in the very same military trajectory as former U.S. presidents; the campaign promise to expose the Epstein list only to reverse himself and declare there was no Epstein list and you should not waste time inquiring about it; or the passing of his ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ that has some good things in it, but also a lot of wasteful pork that only served to increase the national debt by trillions more.

Sadly, this will be Trump’s legacy. Though he was supposed to have saved us from the Deep State, he has chosen instead to join them.

This is not to say that Trump is all bad. He should be commended when he makes wise national decisions and supports policies that help to improve the lives of the American people. But he should also be rightly criticized when he fails to fulfill campaign promises, particularly when he allows Benjamin Netanyahu to take him by the snout and guide him to fight Israeli military conflicts that the U.S. should clearly avoid.