It’s a political base problem few are willing to admit.
Republicans are imploding over Jeffrey Epstein, and the evidence is hard to miss. The panic among GOP lawmakers is unlike anything I’ve seen in a decade of reporting on Congress.
Republicans can’t keep their heads down and trust that the base will keep holding them up, because the Republican base is what’s causing the current panic.
Far-right lawmakers are anxiously trying to navigate around the Scylla of Trump and congressional leadership pushing them to hold off on the Epstein issue, and the Charybdis of the hot-headed multitudes who lifted them into office after getting them to promise to reveal every dark secret of the Epstein case.
I remember a couple being interviewed before the 2016 election. They owned a construction business that was hired by Trump. He screwed them over, never paid, and completely destroyed their business and their lives.
They still said they were voting for him.
I bet you could have added “raped their 13-year-old daughter” to the list without him losing their vote.
“Yeah, I won’t let him stay over at the house again, but we need a businessman in the White House.”
I’ve always said the only thing that would turn his fans against him is if Trump blew a black man live on TV.
No, then they’d just persecute the black man for making Trump do that.
Only if it was Obama.