The Epstein issue has prompted a newer, wider outpouring of frustration with the President’s policies. A lack of transparency - Days after entering the Oval Office for a second time, Trump signed an executive order to declassify records around political assassinations. ‘I do know that we’ve done the RFK, the Kennedy, Martin Luther King is out there very shortly, so we’ll find out,’ Trump said at the time. We’ve really announced we’re doing them in full transparency.’ But broken promises about transparency have become a point of contention for even his most loyal voters.
‘We were promised tax cuts, no inflation and a booming economy. Instead, we were given an inflated stock market that is a corpse pumped full of fake liquidity, few jobs, and 50-year mortgages. Trump promised us law and order, then went to pardon a bunch of rich scammers and paedophiles. It’s all just so exhausting at this point,’ Adam, a 25-year-old Trump voter, told Metro. Adam told Metro that the lack of transparency from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice has been disappointing. ‘We were promised transparency, all while the FBI and DOJ have lied continuously about the Trump assassination attempt, and the Epstein and Kirk investigations,’ he explained. Trump says he’s a president of peace, then turned around and simultaneously funded the destruction of Gaza and is still funding Ukraine.’
Former allies labelled as ‘traitors’ - It’s not just formerly loyal Trump voters turning against the US President – Republican lawmakers, many of whom are staunch MAGA supporters and Trump’s fiercest defenders, have also soured. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace and Ted Cruz are three Republicans who have taken a stance against the leader. Mace and Greene joined every Democrat to sign a petition which pushed the Epstein files bill through to get approved. For Mace, the pivot on the matter came shortly after she defended Trump on X, claiming he ‘banned Jeffrey Epstein from Mar-a-Lago’, ‘cooperated with the feds’ and was ‘committed to protecting women and kids’.
When confronted about Greene’s statement on X, Trump told reporters: ‘Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene. I don’t think her life is in danger. I don’t think. Frankly, I don’t think anybody cares about her.’ Greene stood firm, telling reporters later: ‘Let me tell you what a traitor is. A traitor is an American who serves foreign countries and themselves. A patriot is an American who serves the United States of America, and Americans like the women standing behind me,’ she said, referencing the survivors of Epstein’s abuse, who were with her at the time.