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As much as President Trump and the White House would like everyone to shut up and move on from the dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a new poll shows that the scandal isn’t going away.
Rasmussen polling this week shows Trump has suffered a sharp drop in approval over the period of the Epstein brouhaha, plummeting from a plus-4 popularity rating to a negative-4 in three weeks.
The poll of 1,164 likely voters conducted on July 8-10 found that just 21% believe the Trump FBI and DOJ are telling the truth about Epstein, who was found hanged in his jail cell in 2019.
While FBI Director Kash Patel and deputy Dan Bongino insist that Epstein committed suicide, only 31% of voters believe them.
“You can’t just say ‘Trust me, bro,’ ” says Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen’s head pollster.
“Roughly two-thirds of every political category — 68% of Democrats, 66% of Republicans and 69% of unaffiliated voters — reject the idea that the Epstein case is closed and instead believe that there are dozens of powerful and wealthy offenders who need to face justice.”
Epstein is a self-inflicted wound by the administration that has Trump venting on social media at his “PAST” supporters and “weaklings” of the MAGA base who have bought the “bulls–t” of the “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.”
“Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats’ work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore!”
Echoes of Biden
Mitchell says Trump’s plummeting poll numbers echo Joe Biden’s precipitous and permanent decline after the catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal.
“People want criminal accountability,” he says.
“The FBI interfered with two elections in a row.”
Yet nobody has been punished.
The fury is not just about Epstein.
He’s dead, by suicide in his jail cell, solo or assisted.
His pimp girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell is in jail.
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But the Epstein scandal is symbolic of the absence of accountability for past crimes against the American people.
The president, who won in part by echoing deep distrust in the institutions and stoking legitimate grievances, hasn’t delivered heads on pikes.
The FBI and DOJ act as if that’s a low priority.
Trump is understandably infuriated that the Epstein business is soaking up so much attention, seeing he works from dawn to midnight fixing the disasters unleashed by Biden.
But all those supporters who chanted “lock her up” at his 2016 rallies were disappointed when he broke his promise to investigate “Crooked” Hillary Clinton and instead offered her grace, saying “leave her alone” and praising her as “strong and smart.”
Trump supporters grudgingly accepted it as a one-off sacrifice for the good of national unity.
Fat lot of good that did!
What ensued was the Clinton campaign-inspired Russia hoax, a weaponized FBI and CIA targeting Trump and his allies for the next eight years and an array of fake controversies peddled to an all too eager media.
There was the “pee tape,” the “Very Fine People” Hoax, the “Suckers and Losers” Hoax, the Russian Bounties Hoax, the “Drinking Bleach” Hoax, the “Lafayette Square Tear Gas” Hoax and, of course, the “Hunter Biden Laptop is Russian Disinfo” Hoax.
Two impeachments later it was obvious that extending grace to deceitful Democrats is a mug’s game, so this time everyone thought that Trump would come back into office and eke out retribution.
Business as usual
Six months on, it’s business as usual.
Kash Patel wasted no time putting on an FBI cap, jetting around to hockey games in the FBI private jet and pledging allegiance to the troops he had so recently castigated.
Now he claims they deserve more than anything an expensive new headquarters.
No. They don’t.The FBI is rotten.
That was the mantra of the Trump campaign, and certainly of Patel and Bongino.
They were going to crack down on everyone involved in the weaponization efforts against Trump and his supporters.
“Lock them up” was the chant.
And again nothing happened.
In fact, worse than nothing.
Steven Jensen, the architect of the FBI’s overzealous Jan. 6 investigations, was appointed to lead the Washington Field Office.
We were promised a good reason would soon be revealed.
Three months later, crickets.
There has been zero accountability for the FBI targeting traditional Catholics as incipient domestic terrorists.
The “Radical Traditionalist Catholics” memo of 2023 was not an isolated error as former Director Chris Wray claimed.
Sen. Chuck Grassley has revealed it was an action item pumped out to more than 1,000 FBI employees over multiple field offices.
Meanwhile, the handful of valiant whistleblowers who exposed the corruption, like Steve Friend and Garret O’Boyle, have been abandoned by Patel, who once posed as their champion.
The way to solve the disillusionment embodied in the Epstein furor is not pumping out Truth Socials calling the whole thing a hoax.
It’s not telling people there’s nothing there.
It’s not releasing a doctored video of Epstein’s jail cell with one minute missing — or as the lefty rag Wired claims, “2 minutes and 53 seconds.”
That just added gasoline to the fire.
As distasteful and time-consuming as it for a White House busy with important matters of state, someone has to grab hold of this whirling dervish and fast.
Already you can bet devious Dems are concocting some new version of the “pee tape” to bring down Trump, or at least depress his poll numbers so they win the midterms.
‘No client list’
Alan Dershowitz, Jeffrey Epstein’s former lawyer, claims there is no “client list” and that courts have sealed all FBI interview records of alleged victims.
“I know who they are. They don’t include any current officeholders.”
People have confused Epstein’s “client list” with his little black book — hundreds of names of all the rich and famous people he ever met.
Dershowitz was falsely accused of being an abuser and had to fight to clear his name.
But it’s a pity that Dershowitz-style clarity has not come from the FBI, DOJ or White House, all of which appear to have been caught flat-footed by a conspiracy that MAGA influencers have been whipping up for a decade.
One communications expert in the administration believes the FBI should release a detailed timeline and flowchart of everything known about the Epstein case and hold a press conference to answer every question.
If it’s really some Russiagate-style plot, then expose it.
If the FBI or DOJ botched the initial Epstein investigation or acted corruptly in the sweetheart plea deal, expose it.
The CIA should say whether Epstein was an intelligence asset.
But beyond that tawdry case, there has to be accountability for the deep state witch hunts against Trump and his supporters.
And where is the accountability on the COVID lies and censorship?
Heads on pikes, nothing less.