Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks alongside Donald Trump, at a campaign event in Rome, Georgia, March 9, 2024 (Elijah Nouvelage/AFP)
UPDATE 1702 GMT:
Former US federal prosecutor Shan Wu and I join LBC’s Matt Frei to discuss further the difficulties for Donald Trump from Jeffrey Epstein’s e-mails.
Listen to Discussion from 1:07.36
I explain how Trump — showing desperation after failing to block a House vote on release of Epstein’s case files — has ordered the Justice Department to investigate Bill Clinton, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
Remember Donald Trump has tried to make political capital for years out of the Epstein Files by saying, “Oh, it’s Democrats that are implicated.”
That’s all well and good was Trump is in opposition. Once he’s back in power and your supporters believe it’s only Democrats in the files — “Let’s see them” — he carries the responsibility for bringing the files out.
And that’s what he and his Attorney General Pam Bondi have refused to do for months.
ORIGINAL ENTRY: I joined Times Radio’s Alexis Conran on Saturday to analyze two linked developments: Donald Trump’s attempt to intimidate the BBC and his fury over being named in the e-mails of the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
I explain how Trump’s latest threat to sue the BBC over a clumsy edit — about his call on supporters to block the confirmation of President Joe Biden, contributing to the Capitol Attack of January 6, 2021 — is part of a scheme with his ally, the hard right UK Reform Party, to break the broadcaster.
EA on UK Outlets: Trump-Reform Party Assault on the BBC
Then I examine Trump’s overnight fury at his former diehard backer and conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her a “raving lunatic”, because she supports disclosure of Epstein’s case files.
You have this serious possibility that even as Trump tries to divert, including with the attack on the BBC, he cannot stop the news cycle over the next few weeks being led by Epstein.
That may alienate some of his supporters upon whom he has depended for years.
