Trump voters won't face the 'dark truth' about their hero as the walls close in: columnist

Mounting evidence suggests Donald Trump maintained closer ties to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein than he has publicly claimed, setting the stage for reckoning among his supporters.

According to Salon columnist Amanda Marcotte, Trump's heated response during the holiday weekend to the release of one million additional Epstein-related pages indicates genuine concern. The president's defensive reactions, including accusations directed at Democrats, suggest anxiety about the documents' contents.

Trump supporters may face difficult questions as new information emerges. However, many remain heavily invested in defending the president, potentially limiting their willingness to confront inconvenient facts as scrutiny intensifies.

Citing the president’s “erratic behavior — desperately grasping for any distraction he can throw at his base, leading to the pathetic blitz of ‘look over there!’-style Truth Social posts,” the columnist wrote, “he likely worries, for good reason, they won’t continue to embarrass themselves by denying every round of Epstein stories being released about him.”

As she pointed out, Trump had always led them to believe that “the Epstein files would expose their opponents' and justice would be served.

Instead, the truth is a lot murkier, she said, and mention of the president’s name — along with accusations against him — have steadily grown.

“Trump’s voters don’t want to face this dark truth about Trump — and about themselves and what they support. They’ve lied to themselves for this long, so why wouldn’t they be able to keep doing so, even in the face of an onslaught of documents showing that Trump really did function as Epstein’s closest friend,” she wrote.

“[Attorney General Pam] Bondi’s efforts to cover this up have only guaranteed that the documents are trickling out a little at a time, meaning the story isn’t going away any time soon,” she predicted before adding, “Trump’s love of hiring incompent-but-loyal toadies is backfiring, and all he’s got left are increasingly grasping efforts to distract people from the ugly truth that he was neck deep in Epstein’s world.”

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