Three weeks ago, White House officials were battling a frenzy from President Donald Trump’s supporters over the Jeffrey Epstein case. But the flurry of criticisms from within the Make America Great Again movement have quieted, and Trump officials say they are plotting steps to try to shape the public narrative to their advantage.
The president’s advisers are not under any impression that the storm has entirely passed: The most recent polling shows the public largely disapproving of Trump’s handling of the Epstein case.
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So about those Epstein files?
When you can convince your followers a literal storm isn’t going to hit where it definitely is going to hit with a swipe of a sharpie marker, you can handle metaphorical storms pretty easily as well. It’s just like a cult except instead of charisma, the leader captivates with relatable stupidity and open hatred.