Trump's polling with Republicans 'a disaster' after latest scandal: analyst

President Donald Trump stepped into an easily avoidable but highly damaging trap with his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, according to new posts.

The Department of Justice issued a statement last week disputing conspiracy theories inflamed by attorney general Pam Bondi herself about the late financier and his alleged "client list," and The Bulwark's Will Sommer told "CNN This Morning" that Trump had ignited a MAGA rebellion with his insistence the Epstein matter was not important.

"The Trump administration was telling us up until two weeks ago that it was a big deal," Sommer said. "JD Vance was saying he wanted to see the client list, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, now the heads of the FBI, were both talking about Epstein and how important it was, and, all of a sudden, we've hit this point where they're saying it's over, and so this really has sort of fractured the MAGA movement and people are, you know, even now, still really fighting over it."

Trump had already been facing pushback from some of his most prominent allies over his strike against Iran and a proposal to allow undocumented farmworkers to remain in the U.S., and the back-down on the Epstein case seems to have been the final straw for many MAGA adherents.

"A lot of the people we're seeing who are most vocal about their disappointment with Trump and Pam Bondi are the same people who are really opposed to a war with Iran, and part of that is because of this conspiracy theory that Jeffrey Epstein was working for Israel, and so, as a result, a lot of the sort of falls on the same axis there," Sommer said. "On the other hand, there are like just a lot of, I think, rank-and-file MAGA people who are upset about this, too. You know, certainly when I look at social media comments, basically under any kind of Trump-related post, people are saying, you know, great, but why can't we find out what happened to Jeffrey Epstein?"

"We saw polling yesterday from Quinnipiac that said Republicans are just about even in terms of how they think he handled it," Sommer added, "which in terms of their normal support for the president is kind of a disaster."

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