Trump Took Out The Epstein Republicans — But Not His Jeffrey Epstein Problem: ‘we Still Got Seven Months’

On Tuesday, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) lost nan Republican superior for politician successful South Carolina. Mace mislaid partially because President Donald Trump endorsed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette.

Almost immediately, Mace said she apt mislaid Trump’s endorsement because she had joined nan bipartisan discharge petition drafted by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) to unit a ballot to merchandise files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

This came even though during nan process Mace explicitly told The Independent, “No 1 has threatened me” and that “the president hasn't threatened me, and nan president didn't inquire maine to get disconnected nan discharge petition.”

The nonaccomplishment intends Mace — nan moderate-turned-MAGA Republican who took to harassing Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), nan first openly transgender personnel of Congress — will not beryllium returning to Washington.

Mace’s nonaccomplishment makes her nan 3rd House Republican to suffer their superior aft challenging Trump connected Epstein. Massie mislaid his past month. And Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned months agone aft a nationalist break pinch Trump connected Epstein.

And Trump is already targeting Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for supporting Massie, moreover though nan filing deadline to situation her already passed.

“The retribution bid continues,” Massie told The Independent on Wednesday “The bully point is those 3 women helped maine get a rule passed. Not a subpoena, not a resolution. The president signed it.”

Trump has spent an inordinate magnitude of clip focusing connected tamping down nan soul statement revolt connected Epstein. And connected Wednesday, an excerpt of The New York Times’s Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman‘s caller book allegedly revealed conscionable really overmuch time.

The excerpt reports that Trump’s adjacent advisers, including Vice President JD Vance, then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, huddled successful nan Situation Room to fig retired really to grip Epstein pinch then-Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel joining by speakerphone.

The caller Swan-Haberman excerpt reported that nan Trump management viewed this arsenic a awesome nationalist relations crisis, pinch Vance moreover reportedly suggesting that Tucker Carlson, nan right-wing media provocateur, question and reply Epstein’s ex-girlfriend and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

But contempt Trump’s retribution politically location is small motion that nan Epstein communicative is going distant anytime soon. If anything, arsenic then-Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino said according to nan book excerpt, it’s go Trump’s Iran-Contra. It mightiness beryllium worse than that.

The Department of Justice and FBI’s two-page memo that said that nary “client list” existed for nan convicted activity offender — who died by termination while successful jailhouse awaiting trial. Just this week, a pop-up installation successful D.C. called nan Donald J. Trump and Epstein Memorial Reading Room opened.

The Epstein saga, meanwhile, yet played a domiciled successful nan ouster of Bondi arsenic lawyer general. That led to Trump making Blanche, besides nan president’s erstwhile individual attorney, his acting lawyer wide and nominating Blanche to beryllium nan caller apical charismatic astatine nan Department of Justice.

Blanche’s confirmation hearings will statesman adjacent month. Expect Blanche to beryllium grilled astir it, particularly fixed that he’s said that nary much Epstein files will beryllium released.

Democrats person gone all-in connected talking astir Epstein up of nan 2026 midterms. Khanna, a personnel of nan progressive helping of nan Democratic caucus, has popularized nan word “Epstein class,” and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) has taken nan word up successful his re-election campaign.

This week, recently elected Democratic nominee for Maine Sen. Susan Coillins’ seat, Graham Platner, who faces galore questions astir his past comments astir intersexual abuse, ran an advertisement saying “we will return backmost our authorities from nan Epstein class.”

And successful Ohio, erstwhile U.S. legislator Sherrod Brown is moving an advertisement against Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio), hitting him for receiving money from associates of Epstein.

And there’s much wherever that will travel from. Rep. Robert Garcia, nan apical Democrat connected nan House Oversight Committee, told reporters connected Thursday that if Democrats return backmost nan House, they will attraction connected Epstein.

“I deliberation that it’s nan azygous astir bipartisan rumor successful nan country,” Garcia said. “So I deliberation we’re going to talk astir it a lot.”

Trump mightiness not moreover request to hold that long. Mace and Massie will beryllium successful Congress until nan extremity of nan twelvemonth and tin proceed to make sound astir it.

And erstwhile The Independent asked Massie if he would travel done pinch naming accomplices of Epstein’s connected nan floor, he said “Stay Tuned. We still sewage 7 months.”