For years, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and his Republican allies benefited from conspiracy theories that fed the Maga Conservative Movement (Make America Great Again) and attacked their political enemies.
Now, the persistent fury about files related to the accused sexual trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has forced Trump for an unknown role: trying to close a conspiracy theory.
Epstein, a rich financial and sentenced sexual offender, faced federal positions of sexual trafficking of minors when he died for suicide in jail in 2019. He declared himself innocent, and the case was dismissed after his death.
The saga returned to the news last week after the Trump administration reversed the course in its promise to launch documents that had suggested would reveal great revelations about Epstein and its alleged clientele. That investment has enraged some of Trump’s most loyal followers.
To contain the consequences, Trump’s officials and the White House are weighing a variety of options, including the new documents that are revealed, appointing a special prosecutor and writing executive actions on issues such as pedophilia, according to two sources of the White House with knowledge of the matter.
Trump and Senior assistants have also communicated with the key influencers aligned by Maga, urging them to reduce their criticisms of the management of Epstein’s investigation administration and the exchange approach a broader priorities for the first movement of America, a source said.
The violent reaction on the case of Epstein has put bare tensions within Trump’s coalition and is testing one of Trump’s most durable political strengths: his ability to command loyalty and control the narrative through the right.
The protest occurs in the midst of discontent between parts of the Trump base on the attacks of the United States in Iran, continuous participation in Ukraine and any indication of setback on the promises of hard line immigration of the administration.
The two sources said that intrapartyr friction was detrimental to the coalition and that the White House was actively trying to restore the unit, although they did not expect Epstein’s controversy to be pounced by Trump’s central support.
Last week, many conservative influential and figures from the right -wing media remain unlisted by a memorandum of the Department of Justice that concluded that “there was no incriminating list of clients” or any evidence that Epstein could have blackmailed of prominent people.
The review also confirmed the previous FBI findings that concluded that Epstein committed suicide in his jail cell while waiting for the trial, and that his death was not the result of a criminal act such as murder.
Trump knew Epstein socially in the 1990s and early 2000s. During the 2021 trial of Epstein’s associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, the former financial pilot, Lawrence Visoski, testified that Trump flew on Epstein’s private plane several times.
Trump has denied having been on the plane and has not been accused of any irregularity.
That story now complicates Trump’s response, while working to reassure a base full of long -term suspicions about Epstein and his connection with influential figures.
Trump supports Bondi
Trump has defended the Attorney General Pam Bondi against the calls for his dismissal for some Maga personalities. He has urged his followers to move from the Epstein saga.
“I don’t understand why Jeffrey Epstein’s case is of interest to anyone,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. “It’s quite boring something. It’s sordid, but it’s boring, and I don’t understand why you keep going.”
Both White House sources said there were errors in how information about Epstein’s archives was shared with Pro-Trump influencers, especially by Bondi, who had previously involved that there was a list of Epstein clients.
The Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comments, and Bondi did not answer questions on Tuesday about Trump’s comments about Epstein’s archives at a press conference.
When he was asked if he hoped to maintain his job, he said: “I will be here while the president loves me here, and I think that glass has made clear.”
In a statement on Tuesday, the White House said that Trump’s law and order remains focused on “making the United States again” and “restoring the integrity of our criminal justice system.”
While some prominent voices outside the administration are returning to line, others do not.
Charlie Kirk, a key magician influencer who had amplified doubts about Epstein’s investigation, abruptly reversed the course after a call with Trump, said one of the sources. On Monday, Kirk posted on the social media platform X: “I have finished talking about Epstein. I will trust my friends in the government.”
Trump’s call for critics to go back is not to land everywhere.
Podcast presenters, including Joe Rogan, Theo von and Tim Dillon, whose great audiences are not necessarily pro-trump, but are widely anti-establishment and helped boost their electoral victory, it is unlikely that they will discourage, according to Angelo Carusone, president of the progressive surveillance group of surveillance means for America.
“Trump seems very disconnected from the Zeitgeist that put him in power in the first place,” said Carusone.
Some of Trump’s strongest political allies also maintain the pressure. The Republicans of the Chamber, including President Mike Johnson, called on Tuesday for the Department of Justice to publish more Epstein documents.
Representative Lauren Bobert, a defender of the hard line, made her own demand in X: “We deserve the truth about Epstein’s archives. I am ready for a special lawyer to drive this.”