The power dynamic in the Trump movement has shifted, Neil Mackay argues, with his most loyal supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene turning on the president over Epstein

In the master-slave relationship which exists between Donald Trump and his MAGA base, the president has no limits. He will do and say anything.

However, he has just learned that some of his most servile followers do indeed have boundaries which they refuse to allow him to breach.

Trump was at his limitless worst this week with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. US intelligence found that bin Salman approved the murder of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Khashoggi was lured to the Saudi embassy in Turkey, murdered and dismembered with a bone-saw.

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Yet there was Trump, treating his Saudi supplicant to an airforce flyover and all the luxury his gold-trimmed Oval Office could offer.

That was just for starters, though. When a journalist dared raise the murder, Trump decided to spit on Khashoggi’s grave.

“You’re mentioning someone that was extremely controversial,” Trump said. “A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about. Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen. But [bin Salman] knew nothing about it.”

Trump added: “You don’t have to embarrass our guest.”

Pause momentarily: the very words Trump used about Khashoggi could have been applied to MAGA’s Charlie Kirk,........

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