Many of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters are apparently upset at the people he picked to run the Department of Justice and the FBI.
That’s because the two departments issued a memo that claims there is no evidence that convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein kept a “client list” he used to blackmail powerful figures or was murdered in his jail cell, Axios reported on Sunday.
Considering that FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy Dan Bongino were both big Epstein conspiracy theorists before being appointed to their jobs, and that Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed earlier this year that the alleged Epstein client list was “sitting on my desk right now,” there were some Trump supporters who were skeptical about the new memo.
And, yes, many of the MAGA folks had a mega tizzy at the news that the Epstein files, which have become what Axios called “an article of faith online, especially on the right,” didn’t exist.
Naturally, people had thoughts.
Of course, Elon Musk, who previously alleged that Trump was in the Epstein files, commented on the DOJ and FBI’s new claim they didn’t exist, felt obliged to comment.
Other people, including some on the left, wondered if Trump had any part in the decision to release the memo, since the two were formerly friends.
CORRECTION: This story has been amended to reflect that not all the social media comments featured are from Trump supporters.