"The controversy deepened on Wednesday evening after news that the federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, daughter of former FBI director James Comey, who worked on the criminal cases of both Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, had been fired."

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"The department’s July 7 memo caused an uproar among many of Trump’s most ardent supporters."

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"The debate earlier this year over proxy voting in the House illustrates how such efforts can fizzle when leadership is determined to suppress them."

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"But accountable is the one thing Trump has never been."

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"Trump has turned on his Maga base, blasting his supporters as gullible 'weaklings' for believing the government is holding out on crucial information about the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein."

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"In recent days, members of Trump’s core base, from influencers to activists, have turned on the administration."

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"But they don’t go away and neither do the people who passionately believe in them."

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"The Epstein case is threatening to tear apart Trump’s coalition."

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"Trump's crisis-PR strategy has been to call his voters idiots, claiming that the Epstein story was a Democratic hoax."

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"Trump's comments have not been enough to quell those who are still demanding answers."

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"The melodrama has clearly eaten away at the notoriously mercurial president’s patience."

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"Trump's tirade on Wednesday was an angry departure from his previous attempts to placate his backers."

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"Trump called the scandal a “SCAM” by the Democrats, referring to it as “the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.”"

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"Trump accused Democrats of attempting to capitalise on growing anger over his administration’s efforts to distance itself from conspiracies that many on the US right, including Trump and his allies, have fuelled for years."

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"Trump’s fury comes as several Republicans join prominent MAGA figures in the call to release more information regarding the disgraced financier, after the DOJ and FBI claimed last week that there was nothing more to publicly share on his death, nor was there any evidence that Epstein maintained a “client list.”"

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"Trump is instead going with a wilder maneuver: turning on the MAGA faithful by attacking anyone who’s still interested in the “Jeffrey Epstein hoax” as “stupid” and “bad people.”"

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"The Trump Administration’s handling of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s case is opening divides among Republican lawmakers, officials, and right-wing media figures as the President confronts a wave of backlash from his MAGA supporters."

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"It’s hard to say exactly what Trump meant by a big factor in terms of life."

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"Trump slammed a group of what he called his “past supporters” for refusing to back down from the demand for transparency."

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"When Trump embraced the establishment position on the Epstein case, for the first time ever, he personified the deep state that his base loathes."

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"Trump's disdain for his supporters who question his handling of the Epstein case reveals a deepening rift within his base."

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"Trump is now flailing through a problem of his own making."

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"These four groups represent the four reasons MAGA is going to be just fine when the dust settles."

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"Trump’s angry rant is emblematic of the frustration within the White House that their attempts to kill the issue have not worked."

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"The cult is screaming."

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"Trump's sharp language and public frustration come at a moment of increasing scrutiny, not just over Epstein’s ties to the powerful, but over Trump’s own history with the financier."

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"Trump's angry message was his strongest rebuke of his own supporters, many of whom have been vocally furious about his administration’s handling of the Epstein matter."

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"Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement has been up in arms since the release of a law enforcement memo last week that concluded that Epstein died by suicide and there was no credible evidence that he possessed a “client list” or blackmailed powerful figures."

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"Bondi made clear during a Drug Enforcement Agency briefing that she was there to talk about law enforcement seizures of 64,000 pounds of methamphetamines and not Epstein."

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"Johnson said Tuesday that the Republican base being in an uproar over the Trump administration’s handling of the matter shows the need for “transparency.”"

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"It was a rare moment of friction between Trump and the speaker, a top ally on Capitol Hill, and came as the president faces growing backlash from conservatives who had expected him to make public everything known about Epstein."

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"Democrats are pushing for more transparency and arguing Trump is trying to protect himself after Attorney General Pam Bondi and other officials denied longstanding claims about Epstein’s death or the existence of a 'client list.'"

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"The Democrats are right to demand that Trump answer: Was his administration’s earlier position false? Or is its current position false?"

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"Democrats want to put Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top Trump officials in the hot seat for the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files."

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"The attempt to kill off the issue has outraged Trump’s MAGA base and resulted in a clash between Bondi and deputy FBI director Dan Bongino."

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"Trump said of Bondi, “whatever she thinks is credible, she should release.”"

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"Maga’s obsession with the Epstein files is an indication of how the core ideas associated with the fringe QAnon conspiracy – that a shadowy cabal of government elites is working to cover up a global child sex-trafficking operation – have taken root in the broader pro-Trump movement."

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"The political crisis is especially challenging for Trump because it’s one of his own making."

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"Trump can’t contain the right-wing dogma of deep-state speculation that he’s conjured into being since without such dark materials, the modern right has no viable approach to mass politics."

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"Trump’s daughter-in-law tried to walk the line between siding with the president and appeasing the fuming MAGA crowd he’d promised answers to."

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"The controversy has divided Donald Trump’s Cabinet with reports of bad blood between Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI deputy director Dan Bongino."

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"Now that he’s running the federal government, the community he helped build is coming back to haunt him."

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"This contradicted a major MAGA conspiracy theory, and MAGA influencers are screaming cover-up."

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"Trump’s tirade made it impossible to escape the conclusion that he’s trying to dissuade his voters from believing any damning evidence that may come out."

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"Schoen clarified that he suspects the nation’s top prosecutor simply misspoke."

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"The public is sick and tired of this disparity, which rings as deep and loud as economic inequality and oligarchy."

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"Greene said the Epstein issue has been “very serious” for the Trump administration and frustrated conservatives were “speaking out” about it online."

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"Jones blasted President Donald Trump and his administration Monday for “lying” to MAGA about the Epstein files that they hyped up for months but ultimately failed to deliver."

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"The controversy is offering a damning insight into modern politics and the contribution of a fractured media environment to the shattering of the concept of truth."

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"Tucker Carlson just ratcheted this all up by attacking Trump: He faulted Trump’s government for failing to take questions about the matter seriously."

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"I believe that there will probably be more coming on this, and I believe anything that they are able to release that doesn’t damage any witnesses or anyone underage or anything like that, I believe they’ll probably try to get out sooner rather than later."

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"Most Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and suspect his administration is covering something up, according to three recent polls."

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"If Trump can’t get a handle on this story, however, it may have at least one thing in common with the Russia investigation: it could disrupt his term."

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"The poll, which surveyed 1,027 U.S. adults and ran on Tuesday and Wednesday, found that 69% of respondents said that the federal government is covering up details about Epstein’s alleged client list."

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"The Trump administration’s lackluster production on the Epstein files presents Trump with a two-sided political headache."

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"Trump said he has "lost faith" in certain people in his own party regarding the Epstein case."

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"Trump described Republicans criticizing him and Attorney General Pam Bondi for overpromising and underdelivering on the federal government’s files on the Epstein investigations as “stupid.”"

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"Trump criticized the legacy media and even some of his supporters who think there's more to the Epstein story, calling them "weaklings" and saying he no longer wants their support."

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"Trump accused the “Radical Left Democrats” of launching a new smear campaign against him, denounced former supporters who have bought into the Epstein narrative, and recalled a long list of past “hoaxes” pushed by the Left and the corporate media."

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"Trump dismissed concerns about Epstein, saying that “my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bull***” and that he’s tired of hearing about it."

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"Trump added, "It's pretty boring stuff. It's sordid, but it's boring.""

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"Trump expressed confidence in Bondi's handling of the Epstein files, stating she is focused on more significant issues and is doing a great job despite the backlash."

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"Mr. Trump says his “PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullsh–t,’ hook, line, and sinker.”"

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"The memo sparked major backlash despite the findings, primarily because no “Epstein list” was revealed, nor was there any information released undermining the claim that his death in a New York City jail cell was a suicide."

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"However, Johnson’s bombshell does seem to corroborate what Liz’s sources have been saying as well — that “President Trump is beginning to understand exactly why you and I, his base, care so viscerally about the Epstein files.”"

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"Speaker Johnson has called for the Justice Department to release all files on the disgraced financier, Jeffrey Epstein, to the public in their entirety."

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"Trump claimed that the Jeffrey Epstein files were fabricated by former officials, asserting that they were part of a long-standing political narrative against him."

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"Democrats, meanwhile, have appeared to put their concerns about fanning the flames of what the left has long seen as a conspiracy theory aside to use the Epstein case as a political cudgel to further divide Republicans."

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"MAGA’s disgruntlement with President Donald Trump over his team’s dismissal of the Jeffrey Epstein affair is turning into a political crisis."

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"The attorney general has faced criticism from many conservatives who argue she botched the handling of the Epstein case."

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"Lara Trump noted that the Epstein case is not the number one priority of the president and rattled off a list of the administration's accomplishments, citing the economy and the border as key examples."

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"This is progress of a sort."

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