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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

President Donald Trump is in an absolute fury over his inability to stop MAGA from talking about the Jeffrey Epstein files.

He unleashed a furious manic tirade on truth social over it, and then rambled bizarrely about it to reporters for over a minute straight. None of it's working. Striking new

polls, one from Quinnipiac and the other from CNN, show wide public dissatisfaction with the

whole Epstein fiasco. Critically, both polls show large

chunks of Republicans are also unhappy about it, suggesting his efforts to shut this down

aren't working. But something deeper is going on here. Trump is also revealing a level of contempt

for MAGA that's unusual even for him. His anger seems primarily rooted

in his inability to simply command them to think whatever he tells them to think.

We're talking about all this today with Rolling Stone writer Asoen Sub-Sang, who has a great new

piece digging into the Trump team's frantic efforts to close this thing down and why it's failing.

Swin, good to have you back on.

Always good to be on the pod, man.

To catch people up very quickly, MAGA spent years promoting the idea that sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison in 2019,

had been killed to cover up widespread

pedophilia by elites, especially Democrats. Among those who promoted this were top MAGA people

like Cash Patel and Dan Bongino, who are now in Trump's government as director and deputy

director of the FBI. They went in there and then suddenly announced,

Nothing here.

Swin, is that about the size of it?

Well, isn't it funny which conspiracy theories

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