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Maria Villarroel

Shared Grievances: Trump Temporarily Reunited His MAGA Base Despite Uproar Over Epstein Files

From distrust of mainstream media, to disdain for the Murdoch family, Trump was able to rally his base over what seemed like an issue of deep divide.

Over the last month, the MAGA base experienced what was seemingly their deepest divide over the release, or lack thereof, of additional materials on the case of disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But as the days passed by and the anger seemed to take over the base, the President applied a clever tactic to get his followers back on the same side: unite them over their shared grievances.

A deep mistrust of mainstream media, disdain for Rupert Murdoch and the belief that he had been unfairly persecuted by his political foes were just some of the grievances Trump used to turn his base from questioning his involvement in the Epstein case, back to commitment and full flattery for leading the right-wing movement.

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