Two Early Trump Supporters Say Epstein Remark Shattered Their Faith
By Sandra Rhodes (/journals/sandra-rhodes)
Some MAGA supporters are becoming less supportive of President Donald Trump, per a report from Politico.
Two founding members of the group, told Politico’s Playbook that they lost hope in the man was once thought would Make America Great Again.
Trisha Hope and Rick Frazier spoke about their time following Trump.
Hope is now calling Trump “a fraud and liar; Frazier said the president “can’t be trusted.”
“Hope joined the Front Row Joes in 2018 after publishing a book of Trump’s posts on then-Twitter called Just the Tweets. It helped pay for travel to rallies across the country in an RV she bought after giving up her apartment in Texas,” the article said. “During Trump’s first impeachment, she spent two weeks in Washington roaming Capitol Hill to defend the president.
“I went to every single senator’s office as well as Republican congressmen,” Hope said at the time. “I did everything I could for him.”
Now, she said she would “be walking the halls of Congress” in support of Trump’s impeachment if Democrats win the midterms and pursue an impeachment.
“Hope saw her faith shaken during a July 8, 2025 Cabinet meeting when a reporter asked then-AG Pam Bondi about the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Before she could answer, Trump interrupted: ‘Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy’s been talked about for years,”’ the report said.
Hope said that was “like a dagger in my heart. It was like a light switch went on and a veil lifted, and I saw him for who he was, and I have not been able to unsee it since.”
Hope said she’s also been able to see through Trump’s war with Iran.
“He’s said the war is over 600 different times. He tells us they don’t have a military, they don’t have a navy. They’re still blowing up things. It’s just all lies,” Hope said.
“Epstein crimes and feeding the industrial military complex … those are big nos for me. He promoted himself as a no-war president. That didn’t work out,” Frazier said.
“I’m to the point of not going to the polls in November,” Frazier said.