WorldNetDaily continued its kneejerk conspiratorial concern over the revived Jeffrey Epstein scandal with more articles:
- Reports: Dan Bongino ‘may’ resign from FBI over Epstein fallout
- Report: FBI chief Kash Patel not resigning over Epstein (Gateway Pundit article)
- ‘Mother of all scandals’: Perplexed Alex Jones says 180 on Epstein ‘has put the Trump administration into a mega-massive crisis’
- ‘Tell her story’: Ghislaine Maxwell ready to blow lid off Epstein files and pedophile network, report says
- WATCH: Lara Trump makes intriguing prediction about Jeffrey Epstein files
- ‘Hang ’em publicly’: Republican in Congress urges gruesome death for anyone involved in Epstein crimes
WND was particularly annoyed that President Trump himself was trying to move past the story. Joe Kovacs complained in a July 13 article:
President Donald Trump is expressing his extreme displeasure with ongoing controversy over Attorney General Pam Bondi’s refusal to release files on convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, amid reports FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino may resign over the issue, and reaction from Trump supporters is not positive.
In a lengthy post Saturday on Truth Social, Trump said: “What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’ They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening.
“We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again.
[…]Supporters of Trump expressed their own outrage at the president’s remarks.
One woman who calls herself a “Magadonian wife and mother” indicated: “This statement breaks my heart, Mr. President. I have four daughters, and live in Texas, where families lost little children. I can’t even begin to comprehend the flipped narrative that ‘it was so long ago’ ‘why are we still talking about this’ and ‘nobody should care.’ These victims were someone’s daughters, sisters, nieces, granddaughter. Someone’s child. Please reconsider, sir.
“I voted for everything you are doing! Accountability was not something negotiable. I, my family, and those we convinced to give you a chance are all counting on you to bring sick perversion to account. Otherwise it will continue to happen. If we are not the voice of the victims then who? Respectfully and with much gratitude for all the promises you keep. Please let this one be one, as well. ~Much love to you and yours.”
Another told Trump: “We want the ELITE PEDOS exposed! You promised us that. Pam promised us that. Kash [Patel] promised us that. Now it’s OUR fault [because] we want that promise fulfilled and call Pam out every time she lies? What else has she lied to us about?”
When Trump did it again, Kovacs groused some more in a July 16 article:
Fed-up with “bad people” pushing for the release of files on convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, President Donald Trump on Wednesday unleashed a furious tirade against his own supporters, saying he no longer wants their support.
“I don’t want their support anymore!” Trump exclaimed on Truth Social.
“My PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullsh**,’ hook, line, and sinker.”
[…]On Wednesday, online journalist Nick Sortor noted: “I’m not sure this whole Epstein debacle could’ve been handled any worse.”
Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., is now demanding a special counsel to probe the Epstein case.
Meanwhile, Josh Hammer used his July 13 column to go the Wayne Allyn Root route in trying to dismiss the whole situation:
The Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files has not been its finest hour. During a February interview on Fox News, Attorney General Pam Bondi said, in response to host John Roberts’ question about whether the Justice Department would release a “list of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients,” that the list was “sitting on (her) desk right now to review.” It is an astonishing about-face for Bondi to now disavow that investigators have any such list. The Trump administration owes us all a clear explanation.
With that large caveat aside, though, the fact remains: This is just not the biggest deal in the world – and if you think it is, then you probably need to log off social media.
The midterm elections next fall are not going to be determined by the existence – or absence – of a “client list” for an extravagantly wealthy dead pedophile. Nor will they be decided on the absurd grounds of whether FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino have somehow been “compromised.” (They haven’t.) Instead, the election – and our politics – will be contested on typical substantive grounds: the economy, inflation, immigration, crime, global stability and so forth. This is as it should be.
More to the point: There are simply better uses of your time than fuming over the government’s avowed nonexistence of the much-ballyhooed Epstein client list.
[…]Instead of finding meaning in the confirmation biases and groupthink validations of social media algorithms, perhaps you can locate meaning where countless human beings have found it since time immemorial: religion. Spend more time praying, reading Scripture and attending services at your preferred house of worship. All of these uses of your time will fill you with a sense of stability, meaning and purpose that you will never find deep in the bowels of an X thread on the Epstein files.
No mention by Hammer that the Trumpism of his fellow right-wingers is something of a religion.