For President Donald Trump, whose political career has benefited from the anxiety of voters against the elites of Washington, the health of his predecessor and the wealth of Wall Street, last week offered a reversal of makeshift.
Trump’s efforts to escape the tumult on Jeffrey Epstein failed spectacularly, after the Wall Street Journal published a story alleging that he had sent a suggestive birthday letter to the financial in disgrace – an assertion rejected by the president.
The White House was forced to make a rare disclosure that Trump was not in perfect health. And Trump whipped the fate of the president of the federal reserve Jerome Powell, reporting to the legislators that he would try to dismiss him before retiring after a concern about a market.
Now, while Trump is preparing for a high-level trip to the United Kingdom next week to finalize a trade agreement with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, he finds himself slightly vulnerable.
There was a lot of Trump hoped to exploit in what he called a “week of victories” – the adoption of his flagship tax package earlier this month, the approval of spending reductions this week, a series of favorable economic data, the signing of a bill on stables and the implementation of his aggressive tariff agenda.
Instead, there were suddenly a few punctures in the armor of a president who, sometimes in his second mandate, seemed irrepressible when he folded rival institutions, countries and political opponents to his will.
Trump concluded the week by angry with social media and pursuing one of his best allies in the press, Rupert Murdoch, with Dow Jones & Co. and News Corp. For Libel.
The newspaper reported on Thursday that Trump had prepared a letter for a compiled book for Epstein’s 50th anniversary. The president said that the letter was “false” and described the story of “false, malicious and defamatory”.
However, the report threw gasoline on a simmer fire, especially among the members of the Trump base, after the Ministry of Justice said he had no evidence that Epstein had sang political figures or kept a list of customers. This conclusion stole from the promises of some of the best assistants of the president, which they would reveal new substantial details on a case that many Trump loyalists consider a firearm which proves the existence of a so-called deep state.
‘Weak’
Trump supporters and FBI managers Kash Patel and Dan Bongino would disagree with the Attorney General Pam Bondi, while the president has tried several times – and so far failed – to suppress the fury.
“Do you still talk about Jeffrey Epstein?” He barked a journalist earlier this month. “People always talk about this type, this flipper? It’s amazing.”
This week, he rejected the questions of his base and said that those who are worried about Epstein were “weak” and that “I don’t want their support anymore!”
But what was once a powerful political tool for Trump – Stoking Conspiracies about Epstein, and the participation of Democrats – has now turned against him, with his own frustrated supporters that his administration will cover the details they hoped for being released.
“The emphasis on Epstein is really the best intentions of your most loyal followers,” said Charlie Kirk, a figure in the conservative media, in a segment of his program addressed to the president. He said that the Epstein affair was a kind of calendar track in the questions of the supporters of the loyal Trump on the alleged deep state.
After the release of the newspaper of the newspaper, Trump quickly moved. He ordered Bondi to continue the release of certain transcriptions of the great jury linked to the case, although this has ceased to release the complete release of the documents that his allies demanded.
‘Same scam’
Furthermore, Trump’s national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard directed the declassification of the materials of the Obama administration who, according to her, has shown evidence that the former president and Aid sought to politicize the information around the role of Russia in the 2016 elections.
Trump has repeatedly established an equivalence between the controversy of Russia and the Epstein case, suggesting the two equivalent to conspiracies by his political opponents. A special lawyer finally did not find any evidence that Trump had coordinated with the Kremlin to interfere with the 2016 assistance.
“It’s the same scam,” Trump told Real America’s voice in an interview that broadcast on Wednesday.
The Epstein saga is a rare example of Trump which has difficulty moving successfully the story or the change of subjects in the news, according to an ally of Trump, speaking under the cover of anonymity. The ally predicted that the affair would move away by the elections next year, but criticized the White House decision in February to give the right influencers a workbook called “Epstein files” which was largely a reshuffle of information previously published.
He even overshadowed the president’s growing campaign against Powell, who threatened to undermine the long -standing conventions on the independence of the federal reserve. Trump thought about Powell’s rejection at a Tuesday meeting with the legislators, with a White House official saying on condition of anonymity that they expected that the president will soon act the head of the central bank.
For Trump, his war against Powell serves an important political function, giving the floor to buyers and borrowers who see loan costs on their wallets. But on Wednesday, Trump said that he would not withdraw Powell unless the president of the Fed was forced to get out of fraud, nodding the leading efforts of the president’s allies to put pressure on the president for questions on a project to renovate banks.
‘Win everywhere’
Trump fell his push to force Powell in part because of the warnings that this triggers a disorderly legal struggle, according to a person familiar with the issue, who asked for anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
The problems are distracted from what the White House wants to pay attention: a sequence of victories which includes the adoption of a pack of expenses and the Stablecoin bill that Trump signed on Friday.
“We win everywhere,” said Trump at a signature ceremony for StableCoin legislation. “It’s not even close – not even close – and we will continue.”
Even if Trump has marked the political victories for a long time sought – extend his tax package, publish government agencies and obtain funding for his repression of swelling immigration – Republicans know that everyone has a substantial political risk and that he will have to focus on the sale of his program.
Democrats have seized the restricted provisions The eligibility of Medicaid and tax reductions benefiting the rich, to refine their economic criticism of Trump. And Trump is now two weeks before his next tariff dam due on August 1.
The president has won the warnings of economists that his prices will threaten growth, overturn supply chains and constitute a new consumers’ tax.
