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Three days, three positions: Charlie Kirk reverses his reversal on Epstein (This story isn't dying) [1]

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Date: 2025-07-15

Until Sunday, Charlie Kirk was full-throated in his demands that Trump and his administration release the Epstein list. AG Pam Bondi had pulled a 180 and denied there was one. Kirk didn't believe her. On Truth Social and in a cabinet meeting , Trump told his base to put Jeffrey Epstein in the rearview and move on. Kirk didn't.

Then Charlie got a phone call from Trump — and he changed his tune . On his Monday show, he said:

"Honestly, I'm done talking about Epstein for the time being. I'm going to trust my friends in the administration. I'm going to trust my friends in the government to do what needs to be done. Solve it. Ball's in their hands. I've said plenty this last weekend."

However, Charlie proved to be an inconstant and faithless ally. His loyalty (Trump should appreciate this) was only to Mammon. The conspiracy theorists who pay to hear his musings were not happy. Kirk checked which side his bread was buttered and reversed course again. On Tuesday, he denied he had said what he had said.

"This is a total obsessive hoax. And even some people were emailing me, Charlie, why are you not talking about Epstein? Why are you saying to move on? I never, ever, ever said move on, ever. I didn't whisper it. I didn't think it. I didn't say it. But let me say this again. You know my opinion about Epstein. The messaging fumble."

He added:

"We're going to keep on talking about it. You see, but what's so disappointing, not disappointing, to an extent I get it, is that the MAGA base is so fired up about this. And that's why I didn't take a lot of this seriously. Is that, you know, people were incoming, Charlie, why are you moving on? No one's saying that! And of course, I don't trust the deep state. I trust people that I have known for years... And if there's one thing I've learned from you guys in the grassroots in this audience, you are not letting this story go."

The sting is in the tail. MAGAs have their limits. From the outside, they appear as fanatics who think Trump is the Second (and better) Coming. But their loyalty is not absolute. There is a line. In 2021, the base booed Trump when he suggested they get the COVID-19 vaccine. Now they will not let Trump walk away from his ex-bestie , Epstein.

MAGA 'knows' there is a deep state. During Trump's first term, they convinced themselves that, although Trump was President, there was a secret cabal of unelected, bureaucratic conspirators pulling the strings in a dark place hidden even from the people in charge. But that was then.

This time around, there are no 'establishment' members of Trump's cabinet. Even the superficially qualified candidates (Marco Rubio, Scott Bessent) have sold their souls to carry the boss's water. SCOTUS has given Trump carte blanche to fire anyone he wants. The GOP Legislature is a rubber stamp. The tech bros are pilgrims to the Palm Beach Sodom. The mainstream media is cowed. The deep state has nowhere to live. And the base knows it.

Trump fanned the flames. In his Truth Social post, he said:

"For years, it's Epstein, over and over again,. Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden administration."

It was his SOP. Blame the Left. But Trump blundered. In saying that Democrats had written the Epstein files, he admitted the files existed. Compounding his folly was a doctored video , released by the administration, purporting to show that no one entered Epstein's cell on the night he died. However, analysis revealed a coverage gap.

It was Presidents behaving badly redux. Anyone familiar with the Watergate affair knows it was an 18+ minute gap in the tape that added to the growing belief that Nixon was full of it.

The base latched onto the tape and the admission. The MAGAs 'know' Epstein was the ringleader of a pedophile, sex-trafficking operation. However, they assumed it was comprised of left-wing perverts on the Hollywood/DC/NYC Axis of Evil. It wasn't that they had evidence — they can always manufacture that. Instead, it is for them a truism that sexual moral turpitude is a liberal affliction. One that God-fearing Christians are spiritually inoculated against.

Now that narrative is no longer sustainable. The White House said it had the receipts. Now it says it doesn't. Even as Trump says it does. It released a video that raised more questions than it answered. MAGA can't blame the Democrats for the competing and contradictory narratives.

In addition, the Democrats are now also demanding that Trump and his crew explain their suppression of the Epstein material. We've all seen a movie where two implacable opponents team up for the greater good. Think "Hunt for Red October." A defecting Soviet submarine captain teams up with the US authorities to thwart the Soviet military's attempts to sink the Red October. Now MAGA and the Democrats are on the same page

Politics doesn't have Hollywood endings. But it does make for strange bedfellows — even if temporarily, for a limited purpose. The longer the administration delays releasing the Epstein material they have, the more the base will assume that there are home team names on the client list. Some of them might even start to believe that Trump was one of them.

No matter how much Trump clicks his ruby slippers, and wishes that he were over the rainbow, he will keep waking up to a story that will not die.

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