FILE PHOTO: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks to the media, in the Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington D.C., June 27, 2025. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Wednesday to attack his supporters as "weaklings" for believing in what he now claims is a Jeffrey Epstein "hoax."
MSNBC host Ana Cabrera noted that Trump has worked to turn MAGA in different directions since last week, begging them to celebrate the successes they're having, alleging that the Epstein story is a Democratic conspiracy, and now, mocking his own supporters.
"Does the president really not get it?" asked Cabrera. "Is he out of touch with his base on this?"
NBC News senior national politics reporter Jonathan Allen made it clear, "Yes."
"And, in fact, you know, what we saw — what we've seen is him repeatedly saying, no one's interested in this," Allen noted. "Stop talking about it in public comments. He's accidentally fanning the flames of this, but he sort of feels like he has to, because it's the only thing that his base is talking about.
"We heard him once say, famously, that he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and he wouldn't lose a vote. But what he's finding out right now is that he cannot ridicule and mock all of his own voters and get away with that and have them sit for it."
Cabrera cited Trump's post in which he calls those who believe the story about Epstein "past supporters."
"Clearly, it's not just past supporters, it's people who are wanting to continue to support him and are suddenly having second thoughts over this issue," she said. It prompted her to wonder why Attorney General Pam Bondi is now dodging questions about Epstein and refusing to discuss it further.
"Well, Bondi herself is right at the heart of this storm," said former federal prosecutor and University of Michigan Law School Professor Barbara McQuade.
"She was the person who released volume one in binders in a very ostentatious display, suggesting that this was the secret file that we've all been waiting for, which turned out, of course, to be nothing more than some very routine, already known materials," said McQuade. "And then she said, it is sitting on my desk right now."
She noted that between Bondi, Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel, they were part of a group "stoking all of this interest in the files. And now suddenly they've looked at it and they say, there's no there there."
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