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Some in MAGA are unhappy

Trump faces backlash from MAGA base over Epstein files and arms for Ukraine

US President Donald Trump has spent years encouraging dark or harmful conspiracy theories, and that strategy may now come back to bite him.

First the Epstein files, now arms for Ukraine: US President Donald Trump is facing growing backlash from his MAGA base — including conspiracy theorists online and a key ally in Congress — over some of his administration's most high-profile recent decisions.

Far-right influencers voiced outrage last week when the US Justice Department suddenly walked back the notion that the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein kept a "client list" of elites who participated in the late financier's trafficking of underage girls.

Trump quickly defended US Attorney General Pam Bondi — who suggested in February that such a document was on her desk, only to later clarify that she was referring to the overall case file — and criticised a reporter for daring to ask about the documents.

Some MAGA supporters online called the US president "out of touch" and demanded transparency over the government's files on Epstein, a call backed by conservative influencers and even Republican congresswoman and key Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene.

"America deserves the truth about Jeffrey Epstein and the rich powerful elites in his circle," the isolationist congresswoman from Georgia wrote on X on Monday.

Separately on Monday, Greene also criticised Trump's decision to provide arms for Ukraine.

In an interview with the New York Times, Greene said the move was a betrayal of the America First agenda that Trump campaigned on.

"It’s not just Ukraine, it’s all foreign wars in general and a lot of foreign aid," she told the newspaper.

https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/15/...ms-for-ukraine