Trump Runs to Safe Space Amid MAGA Firestorm Over Epstein — Sits for Softball Interview With Daughter-in-Law Lara Trump On Fox News
With his supporters arguably as angry at him as they have ever been over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein probe, President Donald Trump — in search of a safe space — sat down with his daughter-in-law Lara Trump for an interview on Fox News which aired Saturday night.
Over the course of a 40-minute conversation on the latest episode of Fox’s My View with Lara Trump (which was taped on Monday July 7, the day after an outraged MAGA base learned it would not be getting any further information on the Epstein case), the president was given free rein to crow about his accomplishments without any pushback from the host. At one point, Trump spent a staggering five minutes uninterrupted responding to a question about when people could see “the positive impact from the One Big, Beautiful bill in their lives.” During his rambling response, the president veered away wildly from the original question and proceeded to attack Democrats as well as the media — and even brought up Elon Musk.
“The Democrats, they only do one thing good, and that’s complain,” President Trump said. “And they say, ‘It’s gonna cause death,’ and this and that. They don’t mean it. It’s a soundbite. Somebody gave them a sound bite. ‘It’s gonna ’cause death.’ Not gonna cause death. It’s going to keep people alive, and it’s going make our country successful and really successful. So I always say “You have to explain,” because they have soundbites, like Russia, Russia … it was a sound bite. They make up a sound bite, and they send it to the fake news, and they sent it all over the place. So we have to fight back, and we have to live by our wits.”
The president added, “So many good things [in the bill]. Great on energy, stopping the EV mandate — which, you know, hurts Elon. And it’s too bad. But I told him long before he endorsed me, I said, ‘You’ll never be with me because I’m going to stop the mandate.’ Because the mandate said everybody has to have an electric car within a few years. And I said that’s not going to happen, because not everybody wants an electric. He said, ‘You know what, as long as I’m in the same footing as everybody else’ — I thought it was a great statement. But it turned out not to be so because he was very upset about it.”
“But you got it done,” Lara Trump said.
Over the course of the 40 minute session, Lara Trump did not ask a question about Epstein — despite the anger from the base over the DOJ/FBI memo effectively ending the Epstein probe, which became public the day before the interview was taped. Instead, the interview wrapped with Lara Trump teeing up her father-in-law to frame his own legacy.
“When history looks back on you, how would you like to be remembered?” Lara Trump asked.
“A good person, but a person that saved our country,” President Trump said. “I really believed our country was going down for the fall. I don’t know if it ever could have come back. It was very close to the edge. And I really would like to be known as the man that saved the country.”
“I think you’ve started off on the right track there,” Lara Trump said, smiling.
Watch above, via Fox News.
