'Magic pixie dust': Morning Joe mocks MAGA turnaround after 'decade of rage'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked MAGA influencers for "total capitulation" to President Donald Trump's demand to stand down on the Jeffrey Epstein case.

The Department of Justice issued a memo last week stating the disgraced financier had not kept a "client list," which infuriated many of Trump's political allies until he called on his supporters to stop talking about his former friend and his alleged crimes – and the "Morning Joe" host marveled at how quickly they fell in line.

"I must say, very rarely have I ever seen people going from a decade-long crusade against pedophilia, against sex abuse, against child exploitation and making that almost a centerpiece of their existence, saying, 'When we get in power, we're going to release the Epstein files,'" Scarborough said.

"'When we get in power, we're going to be different, when we get in, we're not going to do what Joe Biden and his attorney general Merrick Garland did – we're going to expose it all.'"

"[Then] you go on your podcasts and you keep repeating that over and over again," Scarborough added. "Or you go on Fox News, or you go on any of these other channels and you say, 'We're going to do this,' and then you have a weekend conference in Florida where everybody's enraged, what Charlie Kirk said, '7,500 people outraged by this, the truth must come out.'

"And then the next day, magic pixie dust is sprinkled over all of the podcasters and, voila, this moral crisis of a decade-long about little children getting raped by the richest and the most powerful men in the world goes away."

Kirk, the conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder, announced that he was no longer concerned about the case after speaking to the president, and Scarborough pointed out that the MAGA movement was built on a fundamental mistrust of the government.

"Let me say, I was asking these questions, I think, before most of these people were, back in 2017 [and] 2018 going, 'Why is this Epstein guy walking around? Why? What kind of sweetheart deal? Why did he get a sweetheart deal? Why is there justice for the poor, justice for middle-class Americans and not justice for the rich?'" Scarborough said.

"It's a good question to ask, and, yet, overnight, suddenly they go from a decade of rage to saying, 'I'm going to trust the government.'"

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