Epstein Schmepstein - MAGAReport 7/24/25

Trump's distraction strategy seems to be working for the MAGAs I track

In the last week, the news about Trump + Esptein has ramped up - the WSJ article about his birthday letter, the DOJ notified Trump this spring that he was in the Epstein files, Mike Johnson adjourned the House so they wouldn’t have to vote on this, and there were a whole bunch of motions in court and interviews. This is a great thread that lays out everything that’s happening now.

Given how deeply invested the MAGA community was in this issue over the last couple weeks and over the last few years, it’s kind of surprising that suddenly they aren’t talking about it.

The only mention of Epstein on their forums at all is a report that “Senate Democrats just OBJECTED to approving a resolution that called for ALL AVAILABLE EPSTEIN FILES to be released. It's ALL about political games. THEY DON'T CARE.” This is extremely misleading. The bill, proposed by Sen. Mullin, called for the release of all “credible” evidence. He had previously objected to bills from Democrats that called for the release of everything. He’s also not super serious about it because today, Democrats put forward another bill calling for the release of all unredacted files and he objected.

So basically, Trump’s strategies have worked on this part of his base. They are, instead, fixated on Trump’s accusations that Obama committed treason. They are mostly not discussing the Epstein news, and when they are, they are shifting to blaming Democrats for it. I suspect it was too much cognitive dissonance for them to hold their anger at Trump.

Mostly, though, they are thrilled about ICE’s work. Here’s one post to show you the tone of how they are talking about it. Note the celebratory note in the red box at the top.