MAGA Diehards Turn on Trump Over Jeffrey Epstein Flop: ‘Tears My Heart Out’
Supporters of the president took to social media to rip the Department of Justice’s new memo on Jeffrey Epstein.
Supporters of President Donald Trump, members of the MAGA movement, turned against him after the Justice Department announced in a memo Monday that there would be no further sensational revelations about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
This does not include the aforementioned “client list,” additional charges against individuals, or evidence of Epstein’s death in prison.
Alex Jones, the conservative podcaster convicted of civil liability for spreading lies that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax orchestrated by crisis actors, broke down in tears upon hearing the news.
“I’m going to throw up,” Jones said in a video posted to Twitter Tuesday. He then claimed that the CIA, Israeli, and British intelligence services “were running Epstein, and that this was an official US government operation.”
The nearly 10-minute video then turned into a scathing attack on the “evil world order” the Trump administration is supposedly fighting. However, Jones made no secret of his disappointment with Trump. “For the Trump administration to do something like this breaks my heart.”
He wasn’t the only supporter of the president to react angrily to the news.
Mike Cernovich, a popular podcaster with 1.4 million subscribers, addressed the president directly. He wrote, “No one believes the Epstein cover-up, @realDonaldTrump. This will be part of your legacy.”
Former allies also weighed in on Epstein’s unsurprising behavior. Elon Musk, for example, posted a sarcastic meme mocking the administration’s pedophile controversy. He also posted a reset dashboard captioned: “The Official Jeffrey Epstein Pedophile Counter.”
Monday’s memo followed a months-long cat-and-mouse game between Attorney General Ben Bondy, FBI Director Kash Patel, and a host of MAGA content creators who hoped the administration would heed their pleas about Epstein.
In February, Bondy claimed to have an Epstein “client list” on her desk, which would eventually be made public. Then, in April, she reiterated her position, claiming the Justice Department held “thousands” of videos showing Epstein abusing children.
As Bondy continued to promise and dodge, often during the same appearance, resentment began to build within the MAGA movement.
That resentment is now public.
On Monday, conservative, pro-presidential podcaster Liz Wheeler called for Bondi’s firing. In February, she was among the right-wing influencers who received a folder containing the “Epstein Files” on the White House, which she immediately denounced for containing no new information.
Epstein conspiracy theories have been taken up by the MAGA movement since the businessman’s death in 2019. Several people who have questioned the government’s account of Epstein’s suicide, including FBI Director Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, have been appointed to senior positions in the Trump administration.
This, of course, doesn’t mean that the conspiracy theory search engine’s alliance with the MAGA movement will pay off; conspiracy theorists seem to be aware of this.
