MS NOW senior enterprise editor Andy Campbell says a Jeffrey Epstein-based rift is growing between the MAGA old guard and younger, more rebellious influencers and podcasters who are not so aligned with President Donald Trump.
“Suspicions of a Trump administration cover-up have sent some sectors of MAGA world into a tailspin,” said Campbell. “A younger, more reactionary contingent of far-right influencers have been singularly obsessed with the public release of the Epstein files since Trump promised to release them amid his re-election campaign last year. And they have not been impressed by what has emerged from the DOJ since Dec. 19.”
“I feel like Trump’s vengeance is no longer going to be against the Deep State, I feel like it’s against us now,” said former InfoWars co-host Owen Shroyer, on right-wing podcast “The Debrief” on Tuesday.
Campbell points out that Shroyer has criticized Trump in the past, suggesting the administration’s fumbling over the Epstein files could lead to “cascading, deleterious consequences for the GOP and the MAGA movement over the next few election cycles.”
“I just don’t think anybody from this administration is going to be electable at this point,” Shroyer said. “It’d take a miracle after this Christmas disaster of the Epstein files.”
At the same time, establishment MAGA — including Fox News hosts and producers — and “old man MAGA,” like Alex Jones, appear to be sticking by Trump’s side, according to Campbell.
“Every time they release another 30,000 things, there’s one picture of Trump … in a suit and tie in a ballroom at a party,” said New York radio host Mark Simone, per Campbell's report. “You’re not going to get Trump on this. He has nothing to do with Epstein.”
Jones, meanwhile, has dumped numerous conspiracy theories about Epstein, including the baseless claim that the late convict ran a “giant multinational secret air force for the CIA.” But on Tuesday, Jones still refused to accept a direct link between the convicted sex trafficker and Trump, despite new photos and letters creeping out by the day.
Instead Campbell said Jones embraces the suspicion that the heavy redactions and incomplete release of the files indicate the Trump administration is hiding something.
Trump, Jones claimed, “did go along with the CIA to cover this up.”
Read Campbell's MS NOW report at this link.
