The combination of election losses last week and new Jeffrey Epstein revelations this week has plunged the White House into a doom loop as once reliable Republican lawmakers are refusing to bail Donald Trump out of the Epstein mess and are looking to create some distance from him, according to an analyst.
Moments after conservative journalist David Drucker admitted Donald Trump “has lost control” of the narrative surrounding his friendship with the notorious pedophile after the release of thousands of incriminating emails, MSNBC’s Jonathan Lemire claimed things are even worse behind the scenes.
With "Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough sharing polling numbers demonstrating Trump’s support is in free-fall, Lemire remarked, “The reemergence of the Epstein story comes at the worst possible time for President Trump, because this is the weakest moment of his second term by far.”
“Republicans lose badly at the ballot box last week on election day, you just went through a lot of polls where Americans, clearly unhappy with Trump's performance as president,” he ticked off. “We have the Supreme Court expressing real skepticism of his signature economic policy; these tariffs that may be unwound in days ahead. We have, of course, you know, the hubbub about the ballroom and everything else where Trump, you know, is seemingly slipping here.”
“And we also are seeing he's running into --- and this is where the limits of his power with his own party — those calls to the House of Representatives, those congresswomen who defied him and said, ‘No, we're not going to do that,’" he elaborated.
“As I reported for a piece I wrote last night for The Atlantic, he's talking to allies,” he continued. “He may have a similar pressure campaign with some senators once the [Epstein documents] bill goes there. And if it does pass both chambers — we don't know that it will — but if it does pass both chambers, then he's going to be in a position where he'll have to veto it. And that will, of course, raise all sorts of questions: What is he hiding?”
“And even some of his allies that he's been on, as I reported, he's been on the phone with over the last 48 hours, are saying to him, like, you're not handling it the right way. You're just calling more attention to it. You're acting like you do have something to hide,” he added.
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