The morning. It is Sunday, July the 27th. President Trump's problem with the Epstein files is not just a scandal anymore. It's starting to feel like a reckoning.

Not just for Trump, but for a Republican Party now being forced to confront how far it has led its base off a cliff.

Now, there's a reason the Trump administration and right-wing media and the

entire MAGA ecosystem are in full-blown panic right now.

The problem for Trump is that the Epstein files threaten to blow a hole in the mythology that

has grown around him.

A mythology that has survived scandal after scandal, but now maybe

has actually found a red line. What we're witnessing in this moment is a painful public

unmasking of a movement that Trump helped build on lies, grift, and cruelty. It's starting to

collapse, the way all cults eventually collapse. A movement that

once held power through illusion, the fantasy of a strongman who would drain the swamp,

restore order, and protect our children is now being forced to confront the staggering hypocrisy

at its core. And it's all happening because a growing number of the movement's followers

are starting to ask the questions

they were never supposed to ask. And that's where this gets dangerous, not just for Trump, but for

all of us. Part of the reason Trump can't shake the heat from the Epstein story is that it strikes

at the heart of what the MAGA base claims to care about. Powerful people doing unspeakable things behind closed doors.

And now, Trump doesn't look like the whistleblower.

It looks like the fixer.

The cover-up man.

As friend of the show, Tom Hartman puts it, quote,

Donald Trump's world is disintegrating right now,

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