'MAN OF THE PEOPLE'

Rachel Maddow Rages Over Trump’s Pity for Disgraced Andrew

The MSNBC anchor noted that the president’s feelings didn’t extend to Jeffrey Epstein’s victims.

Rachel Maddow blasted Donald Trump for sympathizing with Prince Andrew and his family after he lost his titles over his links to Jeffrey Epstein.

The MSNBC anchor showed viewers Monday how the 79-year-old president reacted to King Charles stripping his brother, 65, of his royal titles and lodging: “I feel very badly. I mean, it’s a terrible thing that’s happened to the family. That’s been a tragic situation, and it’s too bad. I mean, I feel badly for the family.”

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Maddow emphasized that Trump’s goodwill was not extended to the victims of Epstein, the dead sex offender and his former close pal.

“To be clear, Trump is not talking about the families of the kids who were molested and raped by his friend, Jeffrey Epstein,” Maddow, 52, said. “He is talking about how sad he is that another one of Epstein’s friends got in trouble with his own family for being part of it.”

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Trump similarly had warm words for Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell after her 2020 arrest for child sex trafficking, a charge for which she was later convicted. “I just wish her well,” Trump said then.

Maddow had segued into the topic of Trump’s response to Andrew’s exile with a sarcastic comment about him being a “man of the people” who has an “acute sensitivity to the sentiments and the instincts of the common man.”

The MSNBC anchor cited Trump’s White House bathroom renovation, his Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago, and the broadly negative response to his demolition of the White House East Wing for a $300 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom that he will reportedly name after himself. Fifty-six percent of Americans oppose the project, a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll from late last month found, while 28 percent supported it.

Yet in Trump’s world, the ballroom is a winning issue.

“People are loving it,” he asserted last week.

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson claimed that Trump was doing more provide transparency on Epstein than the Democrats or the media— despite his refusal to release the so-called Epstein files.

“Democrats and the media—including Rachel Maddow and the Daily Beast—knew about Epstein and his victims for years and did nothing to help them while President Trump was calling for transparency, and is now delivering on it with thousands of pages of documents.”

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