MAGA's Big Voices Melt Down Even More over Trump's Pressure to Silence Them
David Haggith

MAGA keeps smoldering all around the White House as Trump's repeated attacks inflame his "past supporters."

Alex Jones went on a day-long tirade against Trump today because the White House had the audacity to call him and tell him to TONE IT DOWN! So, he toned it up by repeatedly deploying the word “cult,” saying Trump was now acting like a god or like the pope by telling his own people to shut up or get out!

You can watch Jones’s video excerpts in a few of the headlines selected below as well as some minor commentary they include about Jone’s from both the Right and the Left, but here is a selection of the choice words Jones said the Trump teammates had to tell him (in quotation marks) along with Jones’s own comments about those words, albeit all in his highly paraphrased style:

[Trump:] “If you talk about this, I’m going to excommunicate you….”

[Jones:] Well, you’re not the Pope, Bro.

[Trump:] “You people who bring this up don’t even deserve to be involved in this movement…. You are ex communicada … from the mouth of the God King. You are expelled from the Church of the Holy Golden Toad, Donald John Trump…. Anyone who disagrees with me is banished from my Cult!”

[Jones:] Well, that kinda sounds like a thoroughbred cult to me!…

When Trump starts behaving like that, it starts getting into CULT [Jones’s loud emphasis] territory….

You are not the pope!

This is sick. This is bizarre…. I will not take the blame, Trump, for what you are doing to yourself.

Trump doesn’t give a F___!

Stop! Stop! STOP!!! For God’s sake, don’t attack your constituents.

Alex was just a little worked up due to the White House calling him directly to shut it down. And, of course, Jones showed photos of Trump dressed in papal attire and in kingly attire as he talked about what Trump has been saying to all of his “past” supporters.

Trump now says Bondi can release whatever she thinks is credible. Of course, that is just another way of saying, “She won’t release anything that we don’t see for our own reasons as being credible. We’ll filter the material for you to see only what we want you to see.”

Trump has already said the Epstein Files are nothing but a Democratic “hoax” intended just to get him. He also said only “stupid” and “weak” “PAST supporters,” were duped into this “bullshit” by the Democrats. So, clearly, anything in the files that even mentions Donald John Trump will be seen as the incredible components of the hoax that were doctored by Democrats and, therefore, will not be released.

Nick Fuentes, once a Trump fan, now says to Trump, “You suck,” (along with a few other expletives) and sums the situation up as, “We’re gonna look back at the MAGA movement as the biggest scam in history.” He and all others, he says, were scammed by Trump.

Former Trump VP and Trump-branded turncoat, Mike Pence, also said today, “the time has come” to release all the files.

Batting cleanup

On a few other matters that I’ve covered in the past week or two …

The US government now admits that its own analysis shows that two of the three nuclear-enrichment sites the US attacked in Iran were minimally damaged. Only one was “mostly destroyed,” but not “totally obliterated,” as Trump and his people repeatedly and vainly boasted.

U.S. officials knew before the airstrikes that Iran had structures and enriched uranium at Natanz and Isfahan that were likely to be beyond the reach of even America’s 30,000-pound GBU-57 “bunker buster” bombs, three of the sources said. Those bombs, which had never been used in combat before the strikes, were designed with the deeply buried facilities carved into the side of a mountain at Fordo in mind.

Of course, Isfahan also had that lineup of trucks that came and went just before the strikes, though no one seems to know where they went or what they had in them because caring about that would, I suppose, just be buying into another “Democrat hoax” that says the Iranians managed to move enriched nuclear material from the site. The Trump Admin thinks you should not care about which little shells the peanuts were under anymore than you should now care about the files of a man long dead from killing himself (possibly with government assistance).

Also, two more surveys out today show price inflation was quite real in June, albeit spotty. One study by the Fed, noted prices had just begun to rise in June, but stated,

Businesses also expect costs to remain elevated, "increasing the likelihood that consumer prices will start to rise more rapidly by late summer."

Same timeline as stated here. As for those sanguine-sounding producer prices that got reported by the government yesterday, the Fed’s survey was a little less neutral today:

"In all twelve Districts, businesses reported experiencing modest to pronounced input cost pressures related to tariffs, especially for raw materials used in manufacturing and construction," the Fed said Wednesday.

That means, as I’ve warned, even US-manufactured goods are going to rise in price because the cost inputs from their imported materials and parts are going up. Of course, US goods will also go up because government tariffs on all of America’s foreign competitors give American companies headroom to raise prices and still come in lower than the competition to strip away their market share.

It added that "many firms passed on at least a portion of cost increases to consumers through price hikes or surcharges.”

CNBC did its own little survey of a few items at Walmart and found some of the items imported from China went up a LOT in price since the tariffs began, and others went up very little. So, spotty, for June.

The nation’s largest retailer warned in May that it would have to raise prices for its shoppers as President Donald Trump’s new duties drive up the cost of many imported goods. About two months later, some household items on Walmart’s shelves have higher prices, according to a CNBC analysis.

Here is what they found in their limited survey:

While a few of the items they chose to track went down, a number of items went up by what we would normally consider a lot of inflation for just a little over a month’s time, and some went up a massive amount. So, the trickle has begun. CNBC characterized the results this way:

While nationwide inflation data had seen a muted effect from tariffs in recent months, that showed some signs of changing in June.

Walmart is a critical indicator of pricing trends for multiple reasons. It’s the largest retailer in the U.S., a place where millions of Americans buy not only their regular groceries but also purchase furniture, shoes and other general items. It also explicitly warned that the tariffs were so high, it would be forced to raise prices.

“We’re wired for everyday low prices, but the magnitude of these increases is more than any retailer can absorb,” Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey said in an interview with CNBC…

It isn’t just Walmart. Other retailers said this spring that they have raised or expect to hike prices, including Best Buy, Costco, Nike and E.l.f. Beauty.

The message is consistent, and the time is just now dawning.

CNBC did not say what basis they used for deciding which products to track. There is a lot more detail about the kinds of items that did go up in the report in the headlines below, but this is the gist of it. The rise in prices has begun, and everyone expects it to pick up speed as the summer rolls along.

The 30-year US Treasury also hit an 18-year high, something I’ve said to expect as tariffs began to tear into Treasuries by reducing need for a trade currency, therefore reducing demand for US Treasuries.

Finally, I mentioned yesterday that Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon had both suggested Trump appoint a special prosecutor for the Epstein Files, and I said that would never happen.

President Donald Trump “would not recommend a special prosecutor” to review the handling and files of the criminal case against the late serial sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein, the White House said Thursday.

No kidding. If he could ever be persuaded to do that, it would only be if he could find someone he was convinced he could completely and secretly control; but I don’t think he’ll even take that chance. It was basically a no-brainer that that advice was not going to be taken.k And it wasn’t.

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