Voters don’t believe Team Trump on Epstein, may be his ‘Afghanistan’

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MAGA’s disgruntlement with President Donald Trump over his team’s dismissal of the Jeffrey Epstein affair is turning into a political crisis, and a top pollster is comparing the fallout to the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that hobbled former President Joe Biden.

In new polling from Rasmussen Reports shared with Secrets, 56% do not believe the FBI or Justice Department claim that the convicted sex trafficker didn’t have a “client list.” And more than not, 47% to 31% believe Epstein was murdered in his jail cell in August 2019, rather than believe he committed suicide.

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