Trump faces a revolt from his MAGA base over the Epstein files
Source: NBC News
July 12, 2025, 9:19 PM EDT / Updated July 12, 2025, 11:17 PM EDT
TAMPA, Fla. — On the weekend President Donald Trump decided to pick his biggest political fight to date with the MAGA base he created in his own image, thousands of his adherents were gathered together.
And all they wanted to talk about here at the Student Action Summit hosted by the conservative activist group Turning Point USA was the "Epstein files."
“I think that these people — and I don’t know, for whatever reason, there could be reasons — but I don’t think they’re telling us the truth about Epstein,” podcaster Brandon Tatum told the assembled crowd at the Tampa Convention Center. “I think that that that guy was involved in something nefarious that implicates a whole lot of people. And my guess is that the whole lot of people may have, may happen to be some of our allies and some people that we don’t want to have a bad relationship with.”
Trump pulled the rug out from his base Saturday evening when he released a lengthy social media post that completely dismissed the importance of the issue that has consumed the right for the past week — and longer.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-faces-revolt-maga-base-epstein-files-rcna218385
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Oh my god, they're in for the biggest disappointment of their lives when the Epstein documents are revealed. Maybe Jack Smith will find a way to leak them? I don't know.
Somebody will leak them, because too many people know or suspect the truth. It's almost at the tipping point now....
He's taking orders from Putin now, am I right?
A good percentage of trump supporters are QAnon idiots and Epstein is a big deal to these nutcases.
Link to tweet
It’s very simple.
👉 Roughly a third of MAGA Republicans qualify as QAnon believers.
👉 QAnon teaches that government, media, and financial elites are Satanists who sex-traffic children.
a lot.. but they must know Traitor is in the file, so basically they're trying to bring him down. 
Go QAnon. 
The Maga bae is the Cult and they think their leader can do no wrong.. they must know Traitor is in the File..
So why are they trying to bring him Down?
Not complaining. Just Wondering!?
TY, BRDS 
They were the ones who went after Hillary and Democrats in 2016 with the nonsense about the pedophilia and child sex-trafficking ring insanity (e.g., "pizzagate" ). Now they think their "boss" is "covering it up" by not releasing Epstein's files where there was alleged trafficking going on, and they think 45 has become part of "the deep state". 
I asked.
Very informative, too... I never paid any attention to QAnon.. just that they were a part of the Traitor's cult. no idea they cared about something so trumpian as Pedophilia.
Wouldn't that a be an Exacting Karma if they could put a big Crack in the "Consolidating power" movement?
A good percentage of trump supporters are QAnon idiots and Epstein is a big deal to these nutcases.
Link to tweet
It’s very simple.
👉 Roughly a third of MAGA Republicans qualify as QAnon believers.
👉 QAnon teaches that government, media, and financial elites are Satanists who sex-traffic children.