JD Crowe: Snakes alive: MAGA is devouring itself over the Epstein case

This is an opinion cartoon.

Welp. Looks like I have something in common with President Trump supporters. I want to see who’s on the Epstein client list as much as they do. I hope everyone on the list is outed.

Trump’s entire political career has been based on conspiracies and lies. His base has gobbled it all up. Hook, line and sinker … until now.

MAGA and its cousin in conspiracy theories, QAnon, have longed for the release of the Epstein files. This, they thought, would finally prove their belief that Deep State folks, prominent Democrats, Hollywood types and PBS puppets were involved with Epstein’s global pedophile sex trafficking cabal, and Donald J. Trump would emerge as the hero for revealing it.

They were so close to pay dirt they could taste it. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Epstein file was on her desk. And then – POOF! – it wasn’t.

From there, things took a turn.

Excerpts:

The MAGA backlash stems from Attorney General Pam Bondi‘s decision not to release the Epstein investigation files in full.

Bondi’s move opened the floodgates on a news cycle that has put Trump on the wrong side of some of his most ardent followers. Many famous backers of Trump including Tucker Carlson, Roseanne Barr and Steve Bannon appear to have turned on the president in recent days over the White House’s handling of the Epstein files.

“It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly ‘Donald’ below her waist, mimicking pubic hair. The letter concludes: ‘Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.’”

JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group andAL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter@Crowejam andInstagram @JDCrowepix. Give him a holler @[email protected].

If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.