President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case is fueling some heated debates on the far right.
Trump is saying that the MAGA movement needs to move on from Epstein, even accusing MAGA Republicans who have a different view of being “duped by Democrats” and falling for a “hoax.” Some people on the far right are echoing Trump’s assertions, while others are critical.
Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly is among the critics.
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During a Monday, July 28 appearance on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” Kelly — who was a strong supporter of Trump’s 2024 campaign — argued that “it’s hard to have a lot of sympathy” for the Trump Administration’s handling of the Epstein case.
Kelly told Morgan, “Whoever told the Justice Department that this could somehow be buried and that people would move on and that the Trump Administration could get away with that ridiculous two-page summation of ‘You’re not getting any more information because there’s no there there’ should be fired. That person is an idiot and didn’t understand the Republican base — certainly the core MAGA base…. There were no bigger proponents of there being more to the Epstein story than (FBI Director) Kash Patel and (Deputy FBI Director) Dan Bongino, and it’s actually one of the reasons why Republicans were so thrilled to see them get put in charge of the FBI.”
Kelly was highly critical of Bondi’s decision to issue a memo on the case without holding a news conference.
The former Fox News host argued, “This is self-inflicted. First of all, nobody told Pam Bondi she had to issue that memo in the middle of a slow news summer, where people would, of course, predictably be digesting it and the Republican base be horrified by it for the entire summer. That’s really how this is unfolding.”
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Kelly told Morgan, “Now, the president’s very annoyed that it won’t go away. It won’t go away because of the way he’s handled it.”
Kelly got no argument from Morgan, who told her that “the way they’ve handled the scandal has been so bad” and compared it to “leading everybody up to the water’s edge and then not giving anyone a drink.”
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