It has suddenly become the most-asked question of the summer: what is in the Jeffrey Epstein file that the Department of Justice doesn’t want us to see? After promising to release the file, President Donald Trump and US Attorney General Pam Bondi have decided not to release the DOJ file and have intimated that the much-anticipated “client list” that Trump also wanted to release may not even exist at all. The screams of “conspiracy” rose up immediately, but from a very unexpected source- ardent Trump supporters. ABC News contributor Sarah Isgur appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to explain why this tempest is like none that Trump has experienced yet in his ten years in the political spotlight.
Isgur told host Larry Mendte that a key difference this time is that Trump has drawn the criticism from a group of people that has never been upset with him before: “We’ve certainly seen examples in the past where President Trump has bucked what people thought was a core belief of the Republican party and the Republican party fell in line pretty quickly… (But) those were sort of the older branches of the Republican party that Trump has very easily either cabined or dismissed entirely and basically said, ‘Get on board or get off the train.’ Here, it’s actually his supporters- the people who were not already part of that Republican establishment- who are saying, ‘Wait a second’… losing those people can actually cause some real damage.”
Isgur then used this analogy to explain the kerfuffle Trump has created for himself: “I’ll tell you what doesn’t seem to be a good way out of it, is telling a bunch of people you’ve been hyping up these conspiracy theories with that they need to move on and there’s nothing to see here. That’s the way conspiracy theories form. I compared it to Santa’s elves telling all the children Santa doesn’t exist and then telling them to get over it.”
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