The hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” turned their consideration Monday morning to the “rising turmoil” over the Trump administration‘s dealing with of its Jeffrey Epstein information.
Final week, the Justice Division introduced that it had uncovered no listing of Epstein’s purchasers, contradicting earlier remarks by a number of Trump officers, together with lawyer basic Pam Bondi. On his Fact Social account, Trump downplayed the Epstein scenario on Saturday, insisting that his “excellent administration” was being criticized by egocentric people who find themselves “attempting to harm it, throughout a man who by no means dies, Jeffrey Epstein.” He requested his supporters to not “waste time and power on Jeffrey Epstein, any person that no person cares about.”
The Atlantic contributing editor and “Morning Joe” co-host Jonathan Lemire stated Monday that Trump’s submit has had the other of its supposed impact. “Trump’s efforts to attempt to quell this storm, his Fact Social submit [was] almost a thousand phrases over the weekend, [have done] precisely the other,” Lemire instructed MSNBC viewers. “There’s actual, actual anger right here.”
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Trump’s Fact Social submit was not the primary time that he has expressed his frustration with the rising outrage over the federal government’s Epstein information. Throughout a press convention final week with Bondi, who instructed Fox Information again in February that she had Epstein’s long-rumored consumer listing sitting on her desk, Trump snapped at a reporter who introduced up the Justice Division’s Epstein memo, remarking, “Are you continue to speaking about Jeffrey Epstein?”
“That is what’s attention-grabbing about this. Do we all know what the precise Epstein listing is? Or even when there’s a listing? No, we don’t,” Lemire noticed on Monday’s “Morning Joe.” “However what we do know is it is a uncommon second, a really uncommon second, the place there’s a actual fracture within the president’s base.” The “Morning Joe” co-host went on to counsel that Trump’s latest, Epstein-related outbursts and pleas are reflective of the real “panic” at present felt by members of his administration.
“I’m instructed … there’s some actual panic within the White Home proper now. Lots of people have gone quiet. Lots of people have gone darkish, however they acknowledge — these which are speaking — acknowledge proper now it is a downside,” Lemire famous. “It’s the primary time they’ve had an issue like this, and so they don’t suppose it’s gonna go away anytime quickly.”
