A Maga influencer’s dilemma: press for Epstein files or side with Trump? | Donald Trump
Donald Trump is trying to contain an ugly crack with his supporters about Jeffrey Epstein Sex-Traphic scandal, while effective media personalities in the Maga movement face a difficult dilemma.
If they close the ranks with the US President – condemned “He demands more information as a waste [of] Time and energy about someone who doesn’t care about anyone ” – or does the Trump administration choose a political wound that desperately crusty?
Like some conservative experts Steve Bannon And I’m ShapiroIt seems to be trying to continue, Tucker Carlson has become a permanent gadfly among other contention of Trump administration’s discussing Epstein discussion.
At the beginning of this month, at a political conference in Florida, Carlson devoted most of a 45-minute speech to criticize the Trump administration and the conservative organization very close to the right-Israel; For the strike to Iran, where Carlson calls Americans a less deadly threat than drug epidemics; And because he did not answer the questions about Epstein’s impact and connections to Maga movement.
Carlson’s speech did not directly criticize Trump at a Point Point US event in Tampa. In the last election, Carlson said in the last election, except that he supported his beloved Trump to the public, he did not even mention it.[s] He carried out a campaign for ”and for the president and the president”.
But it compared The White House’s attitude towards the Epstein story, Trump’s attitude towards what he describes as a cynical liberal organization. Left “would reject [critics] It came out of hand – ‘You’re not worth listening,’ ‘quiet,’ ‘Carlson told a buyer of young right -wing activists. Now the Trump administration was doing the same thing.
“And I think this is really in the heart of why the Epstein event is so sad,” he said – “The US government, the government I voted for, rejected To take my question seriously and instead: ‘The case was closed; Clover your chin, the conspiracy theorist, ‘It was too much for me. And I don’t think the rest should be satisfied with this. “
Carlson returned to Epstein discussion on Friday. Almost three hours report With Darryl Cooper, a popular podcaster criticized to do misleading Historical claims speculated about the sources of O and Cooper Epstein’s richness and power, and may have been protected by strong people.
Many of Trump’s political base believe that Epstein, who died of apparent suicide in 2019 after being accused of sexual trafficking in sexual human trafficking, was killed, so he cannot explain a “customer list an affecting other powerful men. Trump ventilated the theory in the past implying Clintons are linked to the death of Epstein.
The current Furor, the US Department of Justice and the FBI, said they thought Epstein epic was closed at the beginning of this month and that they anger Maga fans and that they were unusual to control of Trump’s movement.
This Thursday The Wall Street Journal reported This Trump contributed to a kind of festivals compiled by Epstein’s girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, including a naked woman’s doodle. Trump rejected the story and said that on Friday, Wall Street Journal filed a slander for the publisher.
In the short term, Wall Street Journal development is actually backward A little to Trump’s advantage: he was able to frame the story as proof of a media expansion campaign against the conservatives. However, this may not be enough for Carlson.
In a way, Epstein’s anger on the processing opened the door for more harsh criticisms. Carlson, in his turning point speech, argued that the right -wing organization has invested more than the facts of bread and butter materials concerning average Americans on cultural questions such as the inclusion of transsexual athletes in women’s sports.
He said that GDP is the most radicalizing experience you will have, because it is the “the most radicalizing experience you will have, because it is a weaker economy than the United States.
Like the others in the populist wing of the Bannon and Maga movement, Carlson also contradicts the permanent choice of traditional republic coalition for free markets, free trade and hawk foreign policies.
The personal welfare measure is that adult children can afford to buy home-free jobs and without parental help. Nevertheless, even 35 -year -olds with really good work do not meet a house and can not meet the debt in depth, ”he said. “And I think it’s a disaster.”
He argued that some of the reason why young Americans were interested in socialism were no longer a share in the capitalist system. He argued that the difficulty of buying a house also contributed to the falling birth rates.
Political observers often thought that Trump could run to the presidency as his successor at the end of Carlson. Conservative analysts in question That he will have a very strong shot to secure the Republican candidacy. Nevertheless, Carlson did not show a powerful indicator that he wanted to do so, and he often described himself as lazy and vissian sprayed by the idea of holding office.
“I have zero ambition, not just politically, but in life” Told to Semafor In 2022. “My goal is to write my scenario until 20.00 – and I just don’t say that, ask everyone who works with me or know me … I don’t want power, I never wanted power. I was uncomfortable with something and I want it to change. But I was never motivated with the desire to control people.”
This March, O He said in a podcast He sees JD Vance as the best hope for conservatism after Trump. “At the entire Republican party, my position, Trump, who can sustain and expand it from my position, doing what is exactly what should be,” he said.
