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Epstein recordsdata row: Is MAGA loyalty slipping away from Trump? Steve Banon’s new warning for Republicans


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Epstein files row: Is MAGA loyalty slipping away from Trump? Steve Banon's new warning for Republicans
Donald Trump (left), Steve Bannon (AP)

A former White Home aide of US President Steve Bannon on Friday warned that Republicans might “lose 40 home seats” in subsequent years mid-term elections, over the dealing with of Jeffrey Epstein case recordsdata. “You’re going to lose 10 p.c of the MAGA motion. If we lose 10 p.c of the MAGA motion proper now, we ain’t gonna … we’re gonna lose 40 seats in 2026,” he advised a stay viewers throughout his “Warfare Room” podcast.“We’re gonna lose the president,” Bannon added. The assertion got here hours earlier than Trump in a Reality Social submit accused former Presidents Barack Obama, Joe Biden and in addition Hilary Clinton for the mess with none proof.“Why are we giving publicity to Recordsdata written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration, who conned the World with the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, 51 “Intelligence” Brokers, “THE LAPTOP FROM HELL,” and extra?” Trump mentioned.“They created the Epstein Recordsdata, identical to they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele File that they used on me, and now my so-called “buddies” are taking part in proper into their palms,” he added. That shift might threaten the Republican majority gained final November. The GOP has a slim 220-212 majority within the Home over Democrats. After main 2024 losses, Democrats are aiming to regain Home and Senate seats, and controversy over the Epstein case together with backlash to the GOP’s latest “massive, stunning” spending cuts might gas their 2026 marketing campaign.“They don’t even need to steal it, which they’re gonna attempt to do in ’28, as a result of they’re gonna sit there they usually go … they’ve disheartened the toughest core populist nation that’s all the time been who governs us,” Bannon added. Whereas talking on podcast Bannon additionally weighed in on obvious infighting in White Home, citing them as one of many causes for chipping away the MAGA vote from Republicans. Some latest stories have advised that FBI director Kash Patel, and his deputy Dan Boigino are upset with US lawyer normal Pam Bondi led DOJ, over her claims on Epstein recordsdataOn Monday, the justice division (DOJ) and FBI launched a memo concluding their investigation, stating that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t preserve a consumer record and confirming that he died by suicide in his New York Metropolis jail cell in 2019.Bondi, who stood by the memo’s findings throughout a cupboard assembly on Tuesday, is going through criticism after beforehand claiming she had an inventory of names “sitting on her desk.”Trump and others in his administration have defended her, regardless of requires her removing and stories from CNN and Semafor that FBI deputy director Dan Bongino was outraged over the Epstein recordsdata controversy, thought-about resigning, and skipped work on Friday.