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For years, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies benefited from conspiracy theories that fueled the conservative MAGA movement and targeted his political enemies.
In the days since the Trump administration released a memo on Jeffrey Epstein directly at odds with conspiracy theories pushed by the president and some of his top lieutenants, Donald Trump’s movement and most ardent supporters are in revolt.
Democrats are pressuring Trump officials to release long-promised Epstein files, while Trump says the files were "made up" by his rivals.
President Donald Trump and his administration are doing everything they can to make MAGA forget about Jeffrey Epstein. They are failing.
MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on the escalating MAGA meltdown and internal crisis sparked by President Trump’s DOJ and its handling of the Epstein files, as Trump continues to attempt to squash the story.
They’ve got videotape and all a sudden they don’t,” the podcaster said of the government's sudden flip on Epstein files.
President Trump publicly backed FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino amid reports he may resign over Epstein files dispute with the DOJ.
Trump's administration is coping with the massive MAGA revolt over its handling of the Epstein case. Meanwhile Trump seemed to turn on Vladimir Putin on Monday, announcing that he's sending weapons to Ukraine and preparing severe tariffs for Russia if there's not a peace deal soon.
The fallout of the Epstein case is testing the power the president holds over his most loyal followers, many of whom have broken into open revolt against him.
But no issue has exposed the underlying fault lines in the MAGA tent quite like the so-called Epstein files. The furor has centered on a new government review of the evidence surrounding the disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein,