{"id":162101,"date":"2025-07-13T07:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=162101"},"modified":"2025-07-13T07:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:04:31","slug":"trump-is-out-of-touch-with-maga-over-jeffrey-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=162101","title":{"rendered":"Trump Is Out Of Touch With MAGA Over Jeffrey Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sure looks like the Trump administration is holding back on releasing information about Jeffrey Epstein in furtherance of its wider agenda.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t particularly bother me. I trust that Trump is agile enough to pivot when a change in policy and greater transparency with regard to Epstein is needed. <\/p>\n<p>The good path means constantly weighing up competing alternatives. I love how situational Trump is within his decisions. I&#8217;m more of a situationist than an ideologue (though over the past 70 years, paleo-conservatives seem to me consistently right).<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tmVfyDSkNGE?si=H9m7MoPe9iI9_n4l\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sure looks like the Trump administration is holding back on releasing information about Jeffrey Epstein in furtherance of its wider agenda. That doesn&#8217;t particularly bother me. I trust that Trump is agile enough to pivot when a change in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=162101\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791,43001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-jeffrey-epstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162104,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162101\/revisions\/162104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}