Jeffrey Epstein, MAGA and Trump
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Donald Trump very rarely loses control of his own story. But the Jeffrey Epstein saga is beyond his powers to quell.
“Surprisingly, MAGA world, for the first time in memory, isn’t just slavishly acquiescing to Trump’s reality distortion field,” he said, and played clips of figures on the right trashing the president after the Justice Department said last week that the long-rumored Epstein client list doesn’t exist.
President Donald Trump has plenty of recent accomplishments he wants the public to talk about, but there's an issue dividing his political base that won't go away.
President Donald Trump has come to the defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi amid an all-out revolt among his MAGA base over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. But his effort over the weekend to quell the outrage only seemed to add fuel to to the fire.
Trump faces MAGA revolt over Epstein files, risking key alliances and distracting from midterm campaign priorities. Newsweek's live blog is closed.
Lawmakers from the left are putting pressure on what has become a sensitive spot for Trump with his growingly frustrated base.
Some of the president’s most fervent supporters are angry over the joint statement that concluded the accused sex trafficker had no secret “client list” and committed suicide in his jail cell.
President Donald Trump’s advisers have been frantically at work trying to diffuse the carnage that has followed the latest Justice Department (DOJ) and FBI findings on the Jeffrey Epstein case. MAGA has been in a tailspin after the DOJ and FBI found that no “client list” of powerful associates exists for the disgraced financier and that he died by suicide,
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