With Donald Trump headed off to Scotland later this week, he is leaving behind a White House in disarray and unsure how to stop the drip drip drip of revelations about the president's friendship with notorious accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, according to an MSNBC host.
Now that media outlets are growing more aggressive in calling out the president and some of his top officials for creating "distractions" to direct attention elsewhere, MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Jonathan Lemire reported that the White House is in a frenzy over what to do because nothing seems to be working.
In a long monologue, he explained to co-host Willie Geist, "President Trump is usually very good at trying to distract people, trying to change the topic of conversation and particularly to get Republicans to fall in line and we've seen him really hit the limits of that over this last week or so because of the Epstein files as he is throwing things against the wall very dangerously."
"What's so striking here is, yes, he was able to redirect some of the MAGA influencers' anger to the Wall Street Journal itself last week; they published this story, it's the mainstream media biased against your favorite president. et cetera, et cetera," he continued. "But they're not letting go of the story that, you know, both those who host podcasts, but also those in Congress — and it's not just [Kentucky Republican] Thomas Massie."
"It's not just the one Republican who seems to defy Trump over and over and over," he elaborated. "Yes, he's at the tip of the spear here, but there are a lot of other Republicans who also say this needs to happen."
He pointed out that Republicans, "are going to go home and potentially hold town halls and face a lot of angry questions about both the one big beautiful bill and its Medicaid cuts, but also potentially covering up the accusations from Jeffrey Epstein, about Jeffrey Epstein."
"But, you know, they they have said that if we come back in September and we don't have the material we need, then we will go forward with this petition [to release the file] so this is not done and it's a rare sense of real, I'm told, real panic in the inner circle of the trump orbit, because this is a story they simply can't control," he concluded.
You can watch below or at the link.
- YouTube youtu.be
