One of President Donald Trump's most vocal supporters recently suggested the president was deliberately insulting the MAGA movement over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that podcast host and far-right influencer Candace Owens used her latest episode to tear into Trump over both the Epstein case and his decision to send more weapons to NATO allies in order to help Ukraine fight Russia. Owens argued the latter was being done in order to distract from the former.
“It seems like you think your base is stupid,” Owens said. “That’s how I feel. I feel like Trump thinks his base is stupid, or, again, because I don’t think he’s pressing send on these messages, the people around him think that Trump is stupid.”
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"Operation: Just Give Them More War. Yeah, war as a distraction," she continued. "Never mind! We can’t talk about Epstein because guys, guess what? Look at this headline: Trump announces an aggressive, or Trump is to announce an aggressive Ukraine weapons plan. Yeah, he already indicated that in that same press conference that there’s just going to be more weapons sent to Ukraine, they’re going to attack Russia."
Owens' tirade is the latest example of a MAGA-aligned pundit slamming the Trump administration over the Epstein case. Attorney General Pam Bondi set off a firestorm inside the MAGA world when she insisted there was no "client list" in Epstein's file that had the names of the convicted pedophile's closest associates and partners in crime. Former Trump advisor Alan Dershowitz insisted in an interview with former Trump White House press secretary Sean Spicer that he "know[s] the names" on the list but that he was legally prohibited from disclosing them.
Earlier this week, Laura Loomer — a far-right social media personality who is frequently in Trump's orbit — accused the administration of not being forthcoming about the Epstein case. She insinuated that the president's base would continue hammering on the issue until the DOJ released all of the files related to Epstein and his death.
On Monday, Jeffrey Epstein's brother, Mark, accused the administration of being overly secretive about his brother's death – which he insists was a homicide rather than a suicide — in federal custody in 2019. Mark Epstein maintained that if his brother truly died by suicide, there wouldn't be any remaining "secrecy" from the DOJ about his case.
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