{"id":2652,"date":"2025-07-13T08:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-calls-for-maga-base-to-end-epstein-files-obsession\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T08:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:48:17","slug":"trump-calls-for-maga-base-to-end-epstein-files-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-calls-for-maga-base-to-end-epstein-files-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls for MAGA base to end &#8216;Epstein Files&#8217; obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump urged his political base on Saturday to stop attacking his administration over files related to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a case that has become an obsession for conspiracy theorists.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s Department of Justice and the FBI said in a memo made public last week there was no evidence that the disgraced financier kept a &ldquo;client list&rdquo; or was blackmailing powerful figures.<\/p>\n<p>They also dismissed the claim that Epstein was murdered in jail, confirming his death by suicide at a New York prison in 2019, and said they would not be releasing any more information on the probe.<\/p>\n<p>The move was met with incredulity by some on the U.S. far-right &mdash; many of whom have backed Trump for years &mdash; and strident criticism of Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s going on with my &lsquo;boys&rsquo; and, in some cases, &lsquo;gals?&rsquo; They&rsquo;re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB!&rdquo; Trump said Saturday in a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re on one Team, MAGA, and I don&rsquo;t like what&rsquo;s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and &lsquo;selfish people&rsquo; are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein,&rdquo; he added, referring to his &ldquo;Make America Great Again&rdquo; movement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Many among the MAGA faithful have long contended that so-called &ldquo;Deep State&rdquo; actors were hiding information on Epstein&rsquo;s elite associates.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Next the DOJ will say &lsquo;Actually, Jeffrey Epstein never even existed,'&rdquo; furious pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Alex Jones tweeted after last week&rsquo;s move. &ldquo;This is over the top sickening.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Far-right influencer Laura Loomer called for Trump to fire Bondi over the issue, labeling her &ldquo;an embarrassment.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But on Saturday, Trump came to the defense of his attorney general, suggesting that the so-called &ldquo;Epstein Files&rdquo; were a hoax perpetrated by the Democratic Party for political gain, without specifying what benefits they hoped to attain.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Trump struck an exasperated tone in his admonishment of his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For years, it&rsquo;s Epstein, over and over again,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s&hellip;not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>The US president called for Patel and Bondi to instead focus on what he terms &ldquo;The Rigged and Stolen Election of 2020,&rdquo; which Trump lost to Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican has repeatedly perpetuated unfounded conspiracy theories about his loss being due to fraud.<\/p>\n<p>He called for the FBI to be allowed to focus on that investigation &ldquo;instead of spending month after month looking at nothing but the same old, Radical Left inspired Documents on Jeffrey Epstein. LET PAM BONDI DO HER JOB &mdash; SHE&rsquo;S GREAT!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who appears in at least one decades-old video alongside Epstein at a party, has denied allegations that he was named in the files or had any direct connection to the financier.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The conspiracy theories just aren&rsquo;t true, never have been,&rdquo; said FBI Director Patel on Saturday, hours before Trump&rsquo;s social media post.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone, however, seemed to be on the same page.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. media reported that Dan Bongino &mdash; an influential right-wing podcast host whom Trump appointed FBI deputy director &mdash; had threatened to resign over the administration&rsquo;s handling of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"small-caps text-small text-serif\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">&copy;  2025 AFP<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Trump calls for MAGA base to end &lsquo;Epstein Files&rsquo; obsession<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump urged his political base on Saturday to stop attacking his administration over files related to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a case that has become an obsession for conspiracy theorists. Trump&rsquo;s Department of Justice and the FBI said in a memo made public last week there was no evidence that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-calls-for-maga-base-to-end-epstein-files-obsession\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Trump calls for MAGA base to end &#8216;Epstein Files&#8217; obsession&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}