A year after riding a MAGA— Make America Great Again — wave to win a second term as President of the U.S., Donald J. Trump is no longer leading the movement. He is being led by it. Mr. Trump is now being accused by many of his former followers of turning into a mouthpiece of what he once berated as the “Washington establishment”. The MAGA champions are not only questioning their idol, but are also finding common ground with progressive Democrats on pushing back against him.

On Tuesday (November 18, 2025), a bipartisan initiative by Republican and Democratic lawmakers forced their respective leaderships to fall in line with their call for complete transparency in the Jeffrey Epstein case . Epstein, a convicted sex-trafficker who died in custody by suicide in 2019, was linked to sever

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