He's Lied to MAGA before. Why Is Epstein Different?

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Donald Trump has broken promises to MAGA before but never experienced an upset like this. Why are the Epstein files different?

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Trump broken promises

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/dona...
https://qz.com/1960354/trumps-promise...
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump...

Support on Iran jumps 30 points
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...

Voidzilla
   • he wants to bury the epstein files  

Fox News stops mentioning Epstein
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/15/me...

2011 ABC News report on Trump talking about birth certificates
   • Obama Birth Certificate: Trump's New Card ...  

Trump stoking conspiracy theories

https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/trump...
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/...
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04/125361...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/wa...
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video...

Conspiracy theory & populism research

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10....

https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com...

Generalized Dispositional Distrust
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...

Beliefs in conspiracy theories and the need for cognitive closure
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...

Manichean worldview
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...

Good article on common worldview
https://www.democraticaudit.com/2018/...

Jan-Werner Müller, What Is Populism? pg 27
http://cd.bos.rs/online-citanka-novi-...