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Bring up Jeffrey Epstein and his association with Donald Trump.
That was a strategy used by Francesca Fiorentini, my former America Unhinged co-star, each time she appeared on Piers Morgan’s show when the host and his right-wing guests would gish gallop and deflect by attacking transgender people.
Although the tactic never inspired an intelligent conversation about the troubling relationship between the convicted pedophile and the President of the United States, it nonetheless exposed Trump’s major weak spot. If an “Epstein List” exists, then Donald Trump, as his former closest friend, would be all over it. MAGA played with fire by promoting dangerous conspiracies, like QAnon, about liberals being part of a nefarious “deep state” of pedophiles that ran through Jeffrey Epstein. However, they took the risk because they needed to radicalize their base and promote Donald Trump as the only man who could vanquish the deep state and clean the swamp.
Whoopsie!
The Epstein controversy isn’t going away, even as 211 House Republicans voted to block the release of the files. Trump seems to have lost Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on this issue. “It’s a full reversal on what was all said beforehand, and people are just not willing to accept it,” Rep. Greene told the NYT after the Justice Department concluded Epstein died by suicide and there would be no further disclosures.
Trump has spent the past week trying to deflect, but nothing is sticking. The trade wars are a disaster, inflation is rising, his beautiful bill is tanking with voters, and his attempts to smear Rosie O’Donnell and AOC are backfiring. Thankfully, some Democrats have found the spine and courage to relentlessly expose this growing fissure on Epstein and widen the cracks.
Francesca joined me to discuss if Epstein is indeed Trump’s krpytonite and how the majority should exploit it to weaken his fascist regime.
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