A supporter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump rallies outside an early polling precinct as voters cast their ballots in local, state, and national elections, in Clearwater, Florida, U.S., November 3, 2024. REUTERS/Octavio Jones
The MAGA movement is in disarray this week over escalating fights among influencers who believed President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign promises.
Speaking about the debate, former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) couldn't help but laugh at MAGA for thinking that it was anything other than a cult of personality to begin with.
Tuesday, counterintelligence official Joe Kent resigned with a scorched-earth letter trashing the administration and claiming there was no imminent threat from Iran against the U.S. White House correspondent for NOTUS, Jasmine Wright, made it clear on CNN Wednesday that Kent ascribes to conspiracy theories like the FBI is to blame for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Kent, who embraced neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, alleged that Trump was manipulated by Israel into going to war.
That fringe faction of the MAGA world is embracing him again now that he's speaking out.
Meanwhile, Trump is attacking those like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Megyn Kelly over the weekend in a Truth Social rant.
Trump claimed those conservatives are "jealous and angry Human Beings, whose 'sway' is much less than the Public understands, and will, now that they know where I stand, rapidly diminish." He continued, "THEY ARE NOT MAGA, I AM, and MAGA includes not allowing Iran, a Sick, Demented, and Violent Terrorist Regime, to have a Nuclear Weapon to blow up the United States of America, the Middle East and, ultimately, the rest of the World. MAGA is about stopping them cold, and that is exactly what we are doing."
Therein lies the problem, however, Dent said.
"Well, the MAGA people who are upset with this war actually believe that MAGA is a coherent ideology, okay, let's be clear," Dent mocked. "MAGA is what Trump says it is. This is [what] Donald Trump says. And so these other folks are just making a lot of noise, they're falling in line."
He suggested that the real problem for the Trump administration is the growing anger among the rest of Americans rather than Trump's fringe loyalists. The American people writ large have "a problem with this military operation. It's not just about MAGA."
"I mean, as I said, MAGA is what Trump says it is. And, you know, so Carlson and, notwithstanding, Megyn Kelly, Carlson, you know, Bannon and all the rest of those guys who will scream and yell, but they're always going to fall in line. That's where this is,' said Dent.