Right-wing Republicans have also criticized the president’s stances on Iran and Ukraine, hinting at a broader fraying of his political coalition.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson that he supported the release of the Epstein files days after Trump’s Justice Department said the matter was effectively closed.

P resident Donald Trump is facing mounting backlash from his MAGA base over his administration's handling of the Epstein files and its deepening involvement in the Iran-Israel conflict -- and the splintering is especially evident among many of the podcasters and comedians who helped propel his return to power last year.

Megyn Kelly argues why getting to the truth of Jeffrey Epstein really matters and why President Donald Trump should listen to the MAGA base. From "The Megyn Kelly Show" on Tuesday: MEGYN KELLY: It's interesting because there are some right-wing pundits online now who are saying no one cares about Jeffrey Epstein,

President Trump is facing a MAGA backlash over Jeffrey Epstein, and Trump’s broken 2024 pledge to release all files. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports, joined by New York Times’ Emily Bazelon and Michael Grynbaum.

MAGA’s disgruntlement with President Donald Trump over his team’s dismissal of the Jeffrey Epstein affair is turning into a political crisis, and a top pollster is comparing the fallout to the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that hobbled former President Joe Biden.

The survey comes after President Donald Trump’s administration concluded an investigation into Epstein, who died in prison in 2019 in what was ruled a suicide after he was charged with sex trafficking minors.

Trump's comments from a largely overlooked exchange last summer about public access to the so-called Epstein files are suddenly relevant anew.