'Weaklings': Trump dumps 'past' MAGA supporters over Epstein fallout [View all]

US President Donald Trump has explicitly abandoned his MAGA supporters who are still demanding answers over the Jeffrey Epstein saga, claiming they are doing the Democrats’ bidding and saying he no longer wants their support.

Despite the FBI and Attorney-General Pam Bondi drawing a line under the case this month, and saying there was no evidence accused sex trafficker Epstein was murdered or kept a client “list”, a large and influential section of Trump’s Make America Great Again movement is not satisfied.

They are calling on the government to release more of the so-called “Epstein files” – documents related to the case – and increasingly believe Trump’s administration is part of a conspiracy to cover up Epstein’s affairs and links to what they call “the deep state”.

Trump has grown frustrated over the past week as the furore failed to die out. Earlier in the week, he said the Epstein matter was “boring”, and that he didn’t understand why people were still interested. Only “pretty bad people” wanted to keep fuelling the story, Trump said.

https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/weaklings-trump-dumps-his-past-maga-supporters-over-epstein-fallout-20250717-p5mfis.html

https://archive.md/b4YHy

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Is this being reported in the US? I did a fairly cursory search and can't find anything on DU. This article is from AP, not one of the US main media.