'Was I being lied to for my vote?' GOP strategist spots crisis of faith among Trump's base

A Republican strategist warned that President Donald Trump's seeming impunity did not carry over into a scandal that's threatening to consume his presidency.

The U.S. Supreme Court's immunity ruling before he won re-election emboldened Trump, GOP strategist Maura Gillespie told "CNN This Morning," and she said that had set the tone from the start of his second term.

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"It feels like the biggest moment for MAGA, I think, in terms of creating an actual rift where MAGA voters and Trump loyalists were faced with the question, 'Was I being lied to for my vote or is the president hiding something from me?'" Gillespie said, "and that is a stark thing for people who have given their entire loyalty to him, who don't want to blame him for anything, who are constantly looking for somebody else to blame, and even in those first moments, they were looking at [Attorney General] Pam Bondi, 'Get her, get rid of her, Trump,' like she's hiding something, she's doing something. You know, they were trying to find some way not to blame Trump, and I think that has really created this first big rift that we've actually seen in MAGA world, and over the Epstein files."

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