One way that Donald Trump’s waning influence in Washington is evident is how some in Congress are “not afraid” of him anymore, foreign policy analyst David Rothkopf says.

Rothkopf, appearing Monday on The Daily Beast Podcast, pointed to Trump’s inability to prevent the Republican-controlled Congress from voting to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, and to former Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene telling 60 Minutes that members of her party mock Trump behind his back.

Greene, 51, and 54-year-old Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, who led the effort on the Epstein legislation, “are not afraid of Trump anymore,” the Daily Beast columnist told Executive Editor Hugh Dougherty. “In some respects, the biggest development in U.S. politics in the past couple of months is nobody’s afraid of Trump.”

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