President Trump has survived everything. Two impeachments, four criminal indictments, a conviction on 34 felony counts, civil lawsuits, the “Access Hollywood” tape, Jan. 6, classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, and an assassination attempt that left him bloodied but unbowed. If cats have nine lives, Trump seems to have 900.

He is political kryptonite in reverse — every scandal that should have destroyed him only made him stronger.

But Jeffrey Epstein might be different. For the first time in his presidency, Trump isn’t fighting the media, the Democrats or “the deep state.” He’s fighting his own base. The MAGA faithful — who stood by him through porn actress payouts, impeachments, indictments and insurrections — are now asking if they were played. When your most loyal believers start calling you a liar, the ground doesn’t just shift. It cracks.

The scandal exploded when Trump's Justice Department concluded that Epstein died by suicide in 2019 and had no "client list." The MAGA base was blindsided. These are people who spent years convinced that Epstein was murdered to protect powerful pedophiles, that a client list existed, and that Trump would be the one to expose it all. Instead, they got Attorney General Pam Bondi telling them to move on.

Trump's response

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