Right-wing influencers now have to choose between authenticity to their brand, and their loyalty to Trump.

NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join William Brangham to discuss the latest political news, including the political fallout of the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Trump urged his supporters over the weekend to stop talking about Epstein as some expressed anger over his administration’s failure to release more information about its probe into the convicted sex offender.

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.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries appeared to signal support for the release of the government’s files on Epstein during a press conference Monday. “The American people deserve to know the truth,” he said, accoring to The Hill. “What, if anything, is the Trump administration and the Department of Justice hiding?”

After President Trump urged a rattled MAGA base to not "waste [t]ime" on the Jeffrey Epstein case, some are softening their tones. But others still have their teeth sunk in the storyline. The big picture: Trump-world influencers and the president's base were blindsided by the Justice Department and FBI's conclusions that the disgraced financier did not have a "client list" and died by suicide,

Here’s a look at the Epstein sex trafficking case, how the Trump administration has handled it, and how his supporters have reacted to recent developments.

The cable news powerhouse has stopped covering the so-called Epstein files, but many other conservative media figures are still heavily scrutinizing the Trump administration’s handling of the situation.

Conservatives, led by key figures in the MAGA movement, have pressed unsubstantiated claims that Epstein was murdered and that “deep state” actors in the government are hiding lists of