The release of thousands of pages of emails from Jeffrey Epstein has cast a spotlight back on President Trump and his relationship with Epstein. This week, the Opinion national politics writer Michelle Cottle and the columnists Jamelle Bouie and David French argue that MAGA’s engagement with figures like Epstein and the prominent white nationalist Nick Fuentes is causing cracks on the political right and gradual losses for Trump’s base. But will these incremental steps away from Trump eventually look more like a stampede?Thoughts? Email us at [email protected].
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I'm Michelle Cottle. I cover national politics for Times Opinion. And I'm back this week with my usual partners in crime, the fabulous columnists, Jamel Bowie and David French. Guys, how you doing?
Doing well, Michelle.
Doing okay. That's not very convincing, Jamel. Why only okay? Do I want to know? Or are we going to come back to that?
I'm just tired of being in hotel rooms, as viewers may have noticed.
Yeah.
You know, you're the hardest working man in opinion. This week, I feel that we need to dig in once again to the Epstein files. 23,000 of them. I assume that both of you have read them all, every single word?
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