Nick Fuentes, a far-right podcaster and white nationalist who dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago before the election, has turned on the president over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
During a rant on his show Wednesday, Fuentes referred to Trump as “fat,” “stupid” and said he scammed his supporters.
“Now [Trump] says if you’re not on board with the Epstein cover-up, ‘Oh, I don’t want your support. You’re a weakling,’” Fuentes began, repeating comment Trump made on his Truth Social platform earlier that day.
“Fuck you! Fuck you! You suck. You are fat. You are a joke. You are stupid. You are not funny. You are not as smart as you think you are,” Fuentes said. “If you watch my show, you know I’ve been very critical — I’ve never been this far. This just goes to show this entire thing has been a scam. When we look back on the history of populism in America, we are going to look back on the MAGA movement as the biggest scam in American history. And the liberals were right. The MAGA supporters were had, they were.”
“When we looked back in history we will see Trump as a scam artist who served as a vehicle for this, rather than the other way around. We were not the vehicle for Trump, Trump was the vehicle for all of us,” he concluded.
Republicans, including several currently working in the Trump administration have long fueled conspiracies about Epstein’s associates and his death.
But, in a memo earlier this month, the Trump Justice Department and FBI revealed that their review of the Epstein investigation found that there was no “client list” or evidence that he blackmailed prominent figures. The memo also said that Epstein died by suicide while in custody at a Manhattan correctional facility awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019.
The news sparked widespread backlash even among Trump’s most ardent supporters and attempts by the MAGA leader to rein in his supporters have only made it worse.
In a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll 69 percent of voters said details around Epstein were being concealed while close to 25% were unsure whether facts had been concealed.
In the YouGov/Economist poll, also released this week, 67 percent of Americans, including 59% of Trump voters, believe ‘the government is covering up evidence it has about Epstein’ while another 25% aren’t sure.
