{"id":20449,"date":"2025-07-18T06:50:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T06:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=20449"},"modified":"2025-07-18T06:50:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T06:50:45","slug":"this-could-be-the-final-straw-for-maga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=20449","title":{"rendered":"This could be the final straw for MAGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>They\u2019re having a meltdown over at r\/conservative, the principle political hub for right-wing customers on Reddit. In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Conservative\/comments\/1m1euwq\/trump_says_epstein_story_is_kept_alive_by_pretty\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span>thread<\/span><\/a><span> after <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Conservative\/comments\/1m1qmlm\/the_fbis_jeffrey_epstein_prison_video_had_nearly\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span>thread<\/span><\/a><span> after <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Conservative\/comments\/1m1hhat\/live_trump_confronts_supporter_outrage_over\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span>thread<\/span><\/a><span> after <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Conservative\/comments\/1m0qcp0\/congress_has_voted_to_deny_the_amendment_to_the\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span>thread<\/span><\/a><span>, pro-MAGA customers are shedding their minds over President Donald Trump\u2019s gaslighting on convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Wednesday, a livid Trump <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114863203348237352\" target=\"_blank\"><span>called<\/span><\/a><span> his personal supporters \u201cweaklings\u201d for demanding his administration launch the Epstein case recordsdata. He mentioned his \u201cPAST supporters have purchased into this \u2018bullshit,\u2019\u201d and declared, \u201cI don\u2019t need their assist anymore!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Daaaamn. Epstein has been a central fixation of right-wing conspiracy theorists for years\u2014one Trump himself has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-jeffrey-epstein-years-including-2024-campaign-trail\/story?id=123778541\" target=\"_blank\"><span>gleefully exploited<\/span><\/a><span>. He repeatedly promoted the concept that Democrats, particularly former President Invoice Clinton, had been implicated. And whereas the overwhelming majority of the conspiracy ecosystem is nonsense, there <\/span><em>is<\/em><span> a respectable core query: Who had been the highly effective individuals who abused the underage ladies Epstein trafficked? If his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-20-years-prison-conspiring-jeffrey-epstein-sexually-abuse\" target=\"_blank\"><span>convicted<\/span><\/a><span> of serving to site visitors the ladies, who had been the shoppers?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That hole in public data\u2014i.e., verifiable crimes however only a few named perpetrators\u2014has lengthy fueled the Epstein conspiracies. And now Trump is pretending it\u2019s all a \u201cHoax\u201d? Even his base isn\u2019t shopping for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For the primary time in reminiscence, a big chunk of Trump\u2019s on-line base is taking off the blinders. They\u2019re not simply livid that Trump is looking the Epstein recordsdata a Democratic smear job\u2014they\u2019re seeing it within the context of broader betrayals:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"align-center\">\n<figure class=\"image-captioned width-xl\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"width-xl\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.prod.dailykos.com\/images\/1457293\/original\/hoax.jpg?1752716112\"\/><figcaption\/>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>There are numerous feedback like that one: Trump mentioned he\u2019d finish the battle in Ukraine and lower the debt however now he\u2019s arming Ukraine and signed a spending invoice that provides trillions to the deficit. I <\/span><em>need<\/em><span> him to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/07\/14\/trump-sends-weapons-ukraine-00451109\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><span>support Ukraine<\/span><\/a><span> (assuming he doesn\u2019t flip-flop), nevertheless it\u2019s enraging his fanbase that loves Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. And the finances deficit? His base doesn\u2019t but understand how badly this invoice will <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/7\/16\/2333394\/-Trump-is-gutting-Medicaid-but-rural-America-still-won-t-wake-up\" target=\"_blank\"><span>gut rural America<\/span><\/a><span>\u2014however they <\/span><em>do<\/em><span> realize it <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2025\/07\/03\/trump-big-beautiful-tax-bill-national-debt\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><span>explodes the deficit<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And but \u2026 none of that made them waver a lot. Not till now. Not till Epstein.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And Trump is so rattled by the backlash that he\u2019s pretending to dump <\/span><em>them<\/em><span> earlier than they&#8217;ll dump him. \u201cI don\u2019t need their assist anymore!\u201d he wrote in Wednesday\u2019s Reality Social submit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>What occurs subsequent is anybody\u2019s guess. By no means underestimate the cult\u2019s capacity to rationalize themselves again into his arms. However this time? This break feels actual. It&#8217;d lastly be too deep to fix.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/7\/17\/2333789\/-This-could-be-the-final-straw-for-MAGA?pm_campaign=blog&#038;pm_medium=rss&#038;pm_source=main\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019re having a meltdown over at r\/conservative, the principle political hub for right-wing customers on Reddit. In thread after thread after thread after thread, pro-MAGA customers are shedding their minds over President Donald Trump\u2019s gaslighting on convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein. On Wednesday, a livid Trump called his personal supporters \u201cweaklings\u201d for demanding his administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[896,4626,13746],"class_list":["post-20449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-final","tag-maga","tag-straw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20450,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20449\/revisions\/20450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}