Is Donald Trump bothered by the current moment, when a lot of his base seems extremely upset about the Justice Department’s recent report that refutes most of the major Jeffrey Epstein-related conspiracy theories?
Yes, he is, according to a recent MSNBC appearance by a former Trump White House aide.
Sarah Matthews, who worked in the White House at the tail end of Trump’s first term, said on MSNBC Sunday that Trump “has to be panicking right now,” as evidenced by a recent Truth Social rant about the Epstein subject.
“The thing is, is that he campaigned on this,” Matthews said, as reported by HuffPost. “He said that he was going to release the list and now his supporters are asking him to follow up and follow through.”
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“If I had to make a prediction, I think that he is going to try to shift the news cycle this week by either saying something very controversial or doing something controversial,” Matthews added. “Because he does not want us to be talking about Jeffrey Epstein.”
Matthews was deputy press secretary during the last six months or so of Trump’s first term, resigning after January 6 and later testifying before the January 6 Select Committee.
The appearance, on Alex Witt’s MSNBC show, came in response to Trump’s bizarre Truth Social post in which he defended Attorney General Pam Bondi, which began with the phrase “What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?'”
“Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration, who conned the World with the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, 51 “Intelligence” Agents, “THE LAPTOP FROM HELL,” and more?,” Trump wrote in that post, before going on for several hundred more words.
Bondi had claimed earlier this spring that Epstein’s list was “on my desk,” while the White House distributed binders, titled “Epstein Files: Volume 1,” to a group of conservative influencers, although the information in the binders was all previously public information. Now, the Administration is claiming that there’s no more information to release, despite many years of claims to the contrary.
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