Drawn to President Trump for his pledge to take down the political elite, some of his young constituents say he has failed them.

“Not to be trusted.” A “betrayal.”

This is how some young people on the right have characterized President Trump and his administration’s response to the Justice Department’s latest release of Jeffrey Epstein files. For them, the Epstein story is something of a full-circle moment in their political lives — a reason they cast their ballots for Mr. Trump in 2024 that has calcified into anger and disillusionment.

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[T]hey say their faith in Mr. Trump has diminished in recent weeks as they have observed the administration’s response to the Epstein scandal. For his part, Mr. Schwemmer thinks the president has demonstrated a “lack of seriousness” and a pattern of “obfuscation” as communications related to Mr. Epstein have revealed a globe-spanning web of ties to powerful figures in politics, finance, professional sports and the arts. Included in the recently disclosed files are the names of six current administration officials, Mr. Trump’s among them.

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    Trump has been f*cking over EVERYONE for decades. If you just believed him, you’re a fool. If you trusted a news source that told you to believe him, you’re still a fool.

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    The feelings of anyone who voted for Trump don’t matter to me unless they do something concrete to atone for their fascist enablement. For example, self-immolation.

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    Charlamane walking Andrew Shulz through the fact that he got conned by a conman is pretty satisfying.

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    Well, they’re either betrayed or they support pedophelia. Trump’s backed them into a very predictable corner.

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      Whole lotta those people that voted in 2016 were not suckers at all. They knew exactly what they were voting for. The only regret those fuckers have is that he wasn’t able to damage America even more in his first term.

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    They knew exactly what they were voting for.

    They voted for a hateful, stupid, vicious, narcissistic, bigoted thug

    I don’t believe for a second that they genuinely have any regrets, and I believe that they’d vote for him again if they can (assuming that 'Murica ever has another election…)

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      You know how, if you fall for one scam, they trade/sell your info to other scammers because they know you’re likely to fall for something else as well? That’s how I feel about these people: they may (eventually) leave the trump train, but they’ll be ripe pickings for someone else.

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        They’ll vote for the next republican, and the one after that, because they’re in a cult, and those republicans promises to hurt the people that the cult fear and hate

        It’s disgusting, but it’s in their nature