'All that is real': Ex-GOP strategist reveals why Trump's Epstein problem getting worse
Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson said Wednesday President Donald Trump's rift with his Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement over the case of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein will only get worse.
"It is not a conspiracy that Donald Trump was quoted saying, 'Oh, Jeff and I are friends. We party, and he likes women on the younger side.' None of that's a conspiracy. All that is real," Wilson said.
He continued: "All that's in the face of people right now, and Donald Trump is trying to say, 'No, that isn't true. These thousands of pictures of me and Jeffrey Epstein partying over the years, that's an imaginary creation of the deep state.'"
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Asked if anyone in the Trump administration will be held accountable, Wilson said: "Pam Bondi has become the goat in this. She's become the target. She's become the one that the MAGA folks blame for this. She didn't speak MAGA as fluently as [FBI director] Kash Patel and [deputy director] Dan Bongino did."
He added: "They seem to be undercutting her every step of the way. I think she'll be the one who goes if it happens. But the problem with that move, even if he fires her, it will not satisfy the MAGA base because they still want more. They still want the secret sauce."
The strategist went on to say that even if Bondi quits or is fired, this "problem" facing Trump won't go away.
In a Truth Social post on Wednesday morning, Trump publicly rebuked his followers for continuing to pursue the Epstein saga.
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“Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work,” he wrote. “Don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore.”
Later in the Oval Office, Trump claimed he had “lost faith in certain people,” accusing them of being “duped by the Democrats” over the Epstein files — even though Republicans were leading calls for more transparency over the issue.
Meanwhile, The Lincoln Project, an organization Wilson founded, posted a video on the social platform X Wednesday questioning the president's refusal to release the "Epstein files" and referred to MAGA supporters as "suckers."
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