A grim David Urban warned Donald Trump on Sunday morning that the firestorm over the Jeffrey Epstein files is not going to go away and that the president is in danger of seeing his MAGA base pressing him to come clean.
Speaking with CNN host Dana Bash, the former Trump adviser did not attempt to sugarcoat the precarious position the president now finds himself in as the furious internal debate over the files and client list of the accused pedophile Epstein burst into public view with threats of quitting and demands of firings.
''Did you ever think that this would be a thing that would sort of break apart MAGA, whether it's temporary or not?" host Bash asked.
"No. I mean, i don't think, and at the end of the day I don't know if it's going to break apart MAGA, but the issue is bigger," he replied. "Steve Bannon, I think, nails it here directly: it's really not about Jeffrey Epstein and it's about accountability."
"And I think the base, you know, you heard Trump talk about this for a long time, " he continued. "There's a two tier system of justice in America. and the elites get protected. and the FBI protects them and the deep state protects them. I think that's what the base is looking at here."
"The MAGA base is looking at they want accountability for people who may or may not be on this list, who may be rich and powerful and famous, and that somehow the government writ large is looking the other way," he elaborated. "And they see large investigations on January 6th, on Russiagate, on the president, on these huge investigations that take years. and they think, 'why aren't we putting the same sort of resources in here when there is child sex abuse involved and very powerful people? '"
"So that lends itself to not just, you know, the kind of fringe element saying this, but a lot of rational, reasonable people are asking, why aren't we looking at this more deeply?" he added.
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