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kentuck

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Sun Jul 13, 2025, 12:43 PM Jul 13

If Trump loses his MAGA base, he is finished. [View all]

They are the ones that hold the entire regime together, including the former Republican Party members.

Trump keeps them together by making them believe that he is going to run for a third term. Because if he is no longer part of the equation, what reason do they have to even exist?

Many understand that they will have to divorce themselves from Trump and find a new leader if they are to survive as a movement?

Elon Musk believes that he can be that leader. If he can get the right people behind him, the others would follow. Then, he could carry on the fascist takeover of America. But with enemies like Steve Bannon, that might be a big chore?

This is why the Epstein file story is so troubling for Trump. The MAGA base is not buying it. "His "boys" and "gals" want to see everything in the Epstein files. Why is Donald Trump protecting Bill Clinton and other big name Democrats in the files, they ask? Maybe because there are other big names in the "files" and they are not Democrats?

But the MAGA base does not believe Trump is in the files. They do not blame him. They are blaming Pam Bondi for not releasing the complete files, as she said she would do. They do not seem to understand that Pam Bondi does nothing without the approval of Donald Trump.

Knowing that they do not have a lot of collateral in the future of Donald Trump, they may not be as secure as some in the White House and Congress believe?

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