Is there something about liberal elite networks, you should understand?

Half the country is up in arms about President Donald Trump's inexplicable decision to mock his base, because many are appalled that Attorney General Pam Bondi seems to be orchestrating a coverup of a serial rapist of children. Bondi's Justice Department released a memo last week: "The two-page document said the department found no evidence of an Epstein client list and that no additional files from the investigation would be made public."

President Trump's response to all this has been startling: He stated that "[O]nly really bad people […] want to keep something like this going." According to NBC, he also called MAGA supporters of his who are upset at AG Bondi, "weaklings" who "bought into this bull—-t" —.

President Trump's supporters, including Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and even Alex Jones, are furious, and calling for full release of the "Epstein files." Polls show harm to his support: numbers that could threaten Republicans in the midterms.

Democrats are racing to capitalize on the fissures opening among Republicans, as Politico reports. President Trump's appeal to his base is that he is "one of us", and that he promises transparency. A situation that casts him as a rich guy with muddy motivations protecting another late rich guy's friends — the dead man, the worst of the worst — could lose him the base, and cause MAHA voters - millions of them moms and dads of girls like the ones that Epstein abused — to flee.

Conservatives are baffled. My husband, a truly objective man (as well as an ardent President Trump supporter who also worked for numerous intelligence agencies for almost three decades), is puzzled, to the point of wondering if the President is acting uncharacteristically in response to some serious unnamed threat (or threats), perceived or actual.

Because I spent decades in the same elite liberal circles that sheltered Epstein, I am not puzzled. I think I understand the matrix of this situation.

It has, in my view, to do with "the network."

I think that it is likely that multiple people who are critical to this administration's success — my guess is, that these are mostly guys from the Silicon Valley community, who have been the ones to put the fuel of their billions and their technical and media support into President Trump's campaign and administration's engines — whether they are innocent or guilty, are in the Epstein files. (Remember why Mrs Gates broke up with Mr Gates?) And I think this nation's most important scientists, innocent or guilty, are in the files. And my guess is that the funders have confronted President Trump.