During an appearance on MSNBC, longtime political observer John Heilemann suggested that, as bad as the firestorm over the Jeffrey Epstein files has been, the president has a bigger battle ahead of him.
Speaking with the hosts of "Morning Joe," the journalist claimed Trump's attack on some of his biggest supporters as "stupid" is not something that will be easy for him to come back from.
"This call for the grand jury release is not going to get him anywhere," he began. "And I think, combined with the key thing that changed this week, which is Trump not just moving from saying pay no attention to this, to calling it a hoax and calling his own supporters stupid. I think that is the thing that has really tipped us into dangerous political territory for Trump."
He elaborated, "Because we've never seen that before; where Trump has often treated his base with contempt but he's never openly criticized them, essentially for believing him."
"I think that's a very toxic and very dangerous place for the president," he added.
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