LEMON DROP | Trump's MAGA Base Turning On Him Over Epstein

The Don Lemon Show

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Society & Culture, News

3.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

We knew it would happen eventually, but we didn't know how: diehard MAGA supporters, both inside and outside of the Trump administration, are finding Trump's Epstein file coverup to be the last straw. How did it get to this point? Can Trump regain the trust of his fleeing supporters? Maybe this time he flew too close to the sun. Join Don as he reads through his latest Substack piece "From Firebrands to Fall Guys." This episode is brought to you by ZBiotics. Go to https://zbiotics.com/LEMONDROPS and use LEMONDROPS at checkout for 15% off any first time orders of ZBiotics probiotics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:09.7	Heads of state, that new action comedy with Idris Elbert as the Prime Minister,
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0:15.9	as their only hope.
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0:28.2	go to amazon.com.ukau.U.K. slash Prime. So the people who have been spreading the Epstein lie the most or who have relied on it for popularity or closeness to power or closeness to Donald Trump have all found themselves at odds either with the truth or with Donald Trump or with the public or with a conspiracy theory.
0:59.3	And they are the firebrands in all of this who are now finding themselves to be fall guys.
1:04.6	And here's how I write about it.
1:05.9	They stoke the flames.
1:07.2	They sold the myth.
1:08.4	Now the lie is devouring them.
1:12.1	They always tell telling themselves eventually,
1:14.9	that's one of the things that I've learned in journalism and in life.
1:17.8	You give people enough rope,
1:19.8	and if their story is built on lies,
1:21.9	they will either hang the truth or hang themselves.
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